Photo by John Disney/ALMHSF Moves Disputes Lawyer to China Affiliate Firm Kewei
The international firm has promoted disputes lawyer Weina Ye as an international partner in its FTZ joint operation with the Chinese firm.
May 06, 2020 at 05:03 AM
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Herbert Smith Freehills' affiliate Chinese firm Kewei has added a disputes partner in Shanghai.
Weina Ye was most recently a senior associate with HSF where she specializes in China-related commercial disputes and international arbitration. She has advised Chinese manufacturers, energy and technology, media and telecoms companies on cross border contractual disputes, tort lawsuits and other commercial disputes arising from projects and transactions.
Ye joins Kewei as an international partner and will be part of the Chinese firm's joint operation office in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone. She has practiced with HSF for over a decade, starting out as a trainee in London in 2009.
With the arrival of Ye, Kewei has doubled its partner count to six since launching the FTZ joint operation with Herbert Smith Freehills in August 2019. In October, the firm hired former King & Wood Mallesons disputes partner Cathy Liu; and in November, antitrust lawyer Frances Xu was promoted to partner. International partner Gavin Guo and partner Stanley Xie, both former Herbert Smith lawyers, lead the firm. Firm founder Xu Wenbao remains a partner.
The FTZ joint operation with Kewei enables HSF one-stop-shop access to Chinese law advice which international firms in China continue to be barred from practicing. Both firms have been cooperating on transactions and disputes. In February, Xie and HSF Hong Kong partner Tom Chau advised Chinese generator Huaneng Power International Inc. on a $600 million dollar bond offer in Hong Kong.
May Tai, HSF's newly appointed Asia managing partner, said Ye's promotion coincides with Chinese government's further relaxation of regulations on foreign arbitration institutions carrying out arbitration business in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone. China started to allow foreign arbitration institutions to administer foreign-related disputes in the Lin Gang area within the FTZ.
Tai, herself an arbitration lawyer, recently took over as Asia managing partner from Justin D'Agostino, who has started his tenure as firm chief executive officer.
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