Morrison & Foerster has hired long-time Linklaters project finance partner Tessa Davis in Singapore, where she headed the firm's energy and infrastructure group.

Davis specialises in structuring and multi-sourced financing of infrastructure and energy projects, particularly on liquefied natural gas (LNG), petrochemical and renewable energy projects. In 2016, she advised the sponsors, led by U.K. oil giant BP plc, on an $8 billion LNG project in Indonesia's Tangguh natural gas fields.

Davis leaves Linklaters after 14 years with the Magic Circle firm in London and Singapore. She first joined the London office in 2005, after four years at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom's New York office, and relocated to Singapore in 2013, making partner the following year.

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Linklaters is among nine foreign firms that are allowed to practice certain aspects of local law in Singapore with a Qualifying Foreign Law Practice licence. The licences are due to expire next year, when the Singaporean Government will decide whether to renew and how long the new licences will last.

With the addition of Davis, Morrison & Foerster, which operates in Singapore as a foreign law practice, has about 20 lawyers, including eight partners, focusing on investigations and dispute resolution, as well as corporate and finance matters.

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