Singapore. Photo by Shutterstock.comAddleshaw Goddard Adds Construction Partner in Singapore From King & Wood Mallesons
Chau Ee Lee is the U.K. firm's fifth partner hire in Asia since last year.
October 31, 2019 at 08:01 PM
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Addleshaw Goddard has hired construction partner Chau Ee Lee in Singapore from King & Wood Mallesons' Beijing office.
Lee's practice focuses on procurement, project development and dispute resolution in the construction and engineering sector. He will be a key partner driving Addleshaw Goddard's internationalisation, with his experience and network of contacts across the Asia-Pacific region, said Bob Charlton, Hong Kong partner and head of Asia, in a statement.
Lee leaves King & Wood Mallesons after almost four years with the firm. Previously, he practised at leading Singaporean firm Drew & Napier, where he was a director and headed its construction and engineering practice. Before that, Lee was the Dubai office managing partner of Reed Smith.
Lee is Addleshaw Goddard's latest partner hire in Asia this year for its global construction, energy and infrastructure (CEI) practice, which is one of the U.K. firm's investment priorities. In September, Hong Kong partner Vivien Yang, who specialises in mergers and acquisitions in the oil and gas, liquefied natural gas and infrastructure sectors, joined from Simmons & Simmons. And in February, Singapore partner Ton van den Bosch joined from legacy Ince & Co, where he was of counsel and headed the firm's energy and projects team in south and southeast Asia, as well as the global terminals and maritime infrastructure practice.
"Our plan [is] to assemble by 2021 one of the strongest global CEI practices in the market and this is really gathering momentum," Jonathan Tattersall, Addleshaw Goddard's London-based joint head of its CEI practice, said in a statement. In total, the firm's CEI practice has about 30 partners across offices in the U.K., Germany, Asia and the Middle East.
Lee is also Addleshaw Goddard's fifth partner hire in Asia since Charlton joined the firm in May of last year. In addition to Lee, Yang and van den Bosch, the firm also recruited disputes specialist Ronald Sum from Locke Lord, where he was east Asia head of arbitration; and corporate lawyer Lance Jiang from an in-house role as co-head of the legal department at Chinese distressed debt manager China Great Wall AMC International Holdings Co. Ltd. Both are based in Hong Kong.
Charlton told Law.com's Asia affiliate, The Asian Lawyer, in October of last year that he aims to have more than 10 partners in Asia by the end of 2021. The firm currently has eight partners – the others are equity capital markets specialist Daniel Wan and M&A lawyer Andrew Yang, both in Hong Kong.
But the Asia growth plan has encountered some hurdles. Former Hong Kong-based Asia head and disputes partner Nigel Francis left in February; and former Singapore office head and litigation partner Jamie Harrison departed in May.
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