Singapore. Photo: Boule/Shutterstock.comClyde & Co Picks Up Pinsent Masons Construction Pair in Singapore
Pinsent Masons' Singapore office joint head Jon Howes and senior associate Sean Hardy join Clyde & Co as partners.
July 24, 2019 at 01:37 PM
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Clyde & Co has hired construction partners Jon Howes and Sean Hardy in Singapore from Pinsent Masons, where they were partner and senior associate, respectively.
Howes will head Clyde's Asia-Pacific infrastructure practice with Sydney-based David McElveney. He focuses on dispute resolution in the construction and engineering sectors, including domestic and international arbitration, mediation, adjudication and expert determination.
Howes leaves Pinsent Masons after more than two decades with the firm, where he was the joint head of the Singapore office with Mohan Pillay. He joined the U.K. firm's London office in 1997, relocating to Hong Kong in 2000 and then Singapore in 2009.
Hardy specialises in arbitration in the infrastructure, construction and energy sectors. He joined Pinsent Masons in Singapore in 2013, after more than six years at Mayer Brown in London and Hong Kong.
McElveney said in a statement that one of the strengths of Clyde & Co in Singapore is its local law capability, through its six-year-old joint law venture in the city-state, Clyde & Co Clasis. At least seven other firms have Singapore joint law ventures, including Pinsent Masons, which has had one with MPillay since 2007.
Clyde & Co said it has more than 150 infrastructure lawyers globally, including Singapore partners Eugene Tan and Justin Tan, and Hong Kong partners Gilbert Kwok and Patrick Perry. In May, the firm's Hong Kong and China construction group head, Ian Cocking, left to launch his own construction practice in Hong Kong with former partner Dennis Wong, who left Clyde & Co in December. Kwok now leads the China and Hong Kong construction practice.
Christopher Jobson, Clyde & Co's Hong Kong-based Asia managing partner, told Law.com's The Asian Lawyer in December that the firm is in growth mode and is looking to hire partners and teams in the Asia-Pacific region, particularly those that complement the firm's core sectors of insurance, energy, trade and commodities, infrastructure and transport.
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