Following the recent appointment of new Asia managing partner Stuart Salt, Linklaters has adjusted its management team again, this time for its Shanghai office. The firm has named Teresa Ma, currently a partner in Hong Kong, as the head of the Shanghai office. Ma has more than 15 years of experience advising on public and private M&A and international equity issues in UK and Hong Kong, and will soon relocate to Shanghai to join partners Jian Fang, William Liu and Simon Poh and around 20 associates.
The firm will also relocate London-based corporate finance partner Robert Cleaver to Hong Kong in another effort to strengthen its capabilities in Greater China.
Last June, the firm named Hong Kong partner Marc Harvey and Beijing partner Celia Lam as the new joint Greater China managing partners. Their appointment came after former Greater China managing partner Zili Shao was promoted to Asia managing partner in May 2009. Shao stepped down from this post to take up a new role as the chairman and CEO of JP Morgan's China business at the end of last month.
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