China's Han Kun Hires Morrison & Foerster Partner in Hong Kong Disputes Push
Adrian Yip is the latest U.S. firm partner to move to a Chinese firm.
June 02, 2020 at 03:17 PM
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Chinese firm Han Kun Law Offices has recruited two disputes partners, including former Morrison & Foerster Hong Kong partner Adrian Yip.
Yip, who is qualified in Hong Kong, joins Han Kun's associate firm Miao & Co and gives a major boost to the firm's Hong Kong law disputes capability. Yip specializes in commercial litigation as well as arbitration, having represented Chinese clients in proceedings in Hong Kong and abroad.
Up until his move to Han Kun, Yip had spent a large part of his career at U.S. law firms, specializing in a Hong Kong disputes practice. He became a partner with MoFo in 2015 when he moved from Winston & Strawn, where he had been a partner for five years. Before that, he was at Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, where he became a partner in 2005 when a majority of the China team of his previous firm, Coudert Brothers, was taken over by Orrick after its dissolution.
Yip is the latest lateral that Han Kun has snatched up from international firms. In the past few years, the Beijing-based firm hired away former Clifford Chance partner Yang Tiecheng, former White & Case partner Li Xiaoming and former Morgan, Lewis & Bockius partner Duan Min. In Hong Kong, the firm recruited two senior capital markets lawyers in 2018 from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett.
In 2016, Han Kun formed an association with Miao & Co, a Hong Kong firm led by former Morrison & Foerster lawyer Felix Miao. The practice has mostly focused on corporate transactions, including Hong Kong listings. This week, Han Kun and Miao & Co acted as Chinese and Hong Kong counsel, respectively, for Chinese mobile payment company YEAHKA Ltd. on a $212 million initial public offering on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
In addition to Yip, Han Kun has recruited disputes partner Fan Xiangyang in Beijing. Fan was most recently a senior consultant with Dentons in Beijing. Before joining private practice in 2016, Fan was a circuit court judge specializing in civil and commercial disputes.
In January, Han Kun hired prominent intellectual property partner Denning Jin in Shanghai from Haiwen & Partners.
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