Dechert law firm news

Jones Day partner Jingzhou Tao has joined Dechert as the managing partner responsible for developing the firm’s Asia practice.

美国众达前合伙人陶景洲近日以亚洲区管理合伙人的身份加入美国德杰，他将主要负责发展律所的洲事务。在加入众达之前，陶景洲曾是欧华北京代表处的管理合伙人。

Latham & Watkins has opened an office in Beijing, its fifth office in Asia and third in Greater China. The firm had to wait three years before...

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Winston & Strawn has launched two separate offices in Beijing and Shanghai, after opening an office in Hong Kong late last year.

It comes as no surprise that many law firms around the world have seen their coffers shrinking. Surprises however, did come for some.

In the context of the global financial crisis and the Olympics aftermath, the legal industry in the country's capital city is inevitably affected. But Beijing's legal fraternity believes that the legal services market will remain vibrant and prosperous.

Baker & McKenzie are the latest in a long list of international firms to announce redundancies. The firm has confirmed lay-offs in 20 legal positions in London, including both associates and paralegals.

Since century-old US firm Heller Ehrman dissolved last September, most of the partners and counsel in the firm’s Asia practice group have been snapped up by new entrants keen to expand their offices in the region.

Amid global economic turmoil and dwindling workflows, US lawyers are showing good spirit and using their spare time to do more pro bono work.

Dechert has expanded its Hong Kong office with the capture of partners Michael Hickman and Liang Tsui from Fried Frank, and David Chu from dissolved firm Heller Ehrman.

Dechert has announced that private equity and hedge funds specialist Angelyn Lim will join the firm as a partner in its Hong Kong office. Lim, whose appointment will bring the number of fee earners in the firm's Hong Kong office to 10, was previously at Herbert Smith and Stephenson Harwood & Lo.

US firm Dechert has netted Henry Wang as managing partner of its newly-opened Beijing office to bridge the legal and cultural gaps between the East and West.

Islamic finance expert Abradat Kamalpour’s departure from Dechert to Ashurst in London is intended to consolidate Ashurst’s Euro-Middle East Islamic finance practice and may dent Dechert’s firm grip in this area.

US firm Dechert has been granted a licence to open an office in Beijing, its first in mainland China. Earlier this year, the firm entered Hong Kong in a joint venture with local firm Hwang & Co, a move described as “strategically imperative” by Dechert partner and Hwang & Co managing partner Basil Hwang.

Speaking of growth, it's another new office for Bryan Cave. The firm is following up its recent launches in Milan, Hamburg and San Francisco with a Paris operation.

For the seventh straight year, China-based companies have increased the number of new filings for trademarks in the US.

Recent PRC regulatory measures designed to curb investment inflows from offshore may have discouraged some bigger private equity deals, but private equity lawyers say investors continue to find China attractive - as they return to the old days of direct onshore investment

International law firm Dechert has joined the race to China by recruiting private equity and venture capitalfocused Basil Hwang to manage a newly opened Hong Kong office.

International law firm Dechert has joined the race to China by recruiting private equity and venture capital-focused Basil Hwang to manage a newly opened Hong Kong office.