近日，香港精品所徛毘施律师行的创始合伙人之一，国际仲裁和诉讼专家 Philip Georgiou 宣布离职，带领团队成立了属于自己的 Georgiou Partnership律师事务所。
据该所官网显示，新成立的事务所将由一个团队领导，其中包括管理合伙人 Philip Georgiou、特别顾问郑宝玉、合伙人 Randall Arthur 以及特别顾问 Anna Kim，几位领导成员此前均在徛毘施工作。
在加入徛毘施之前，郑宝玉律师曾在安永全球法律服务网络林朱律师事务所工作，Randall Arthur曾在高博金律师事务所担任合伙人，Anna Kim则在法律服务供应商KorumLegal工作。
Georgiou Partnership 管理合伙人 Georgiou 在领英表示：“在过去的六个月里，我们一直在努力工作，以实现创办一家律师事务所的梦想，该事务所将完全致力于争议解决、合规和调查等核心业务，以及建筑、破产和资产追回等专业业务。”
Georgiou 曾是贝克博茨律师事务所和众达律师事务所的争议解决合伙人，他于2017 年与 Sonny Payne 和 Brett Stewien 共同创办了 GPS，该事务所曾一度被称为GPS McQuhae。但在合伙人Ben McQuhae（他也曾是仲量联行的合伙人）离开成立自己的事务所后，又重新命名为GPS。
徛毘施律师行成立于2017年，是一家专注于交易和争议解决精品所。目前，该所共拥有三名合伙人，即创始合伙人Sonny Payne和Brett Stewien，以及去年从德龙律师事务所加入的John Koh。
随着 Georgiou的离开，徛毘施或将更名。
GPS co-founder exits to launch new disputes-focused firm
Philip Georgiou, an international arbitration and litigation expert who co-founded Hong Kong law firm Georgiou Payne Stewien (GPS Legal), has left to launch his own firm, Georgiou Partnership.
Joining Georgiou in the move are GPS partners Kareena Teh and Randall Arthur. Restructuring expert Arthur will be a partner at the new firm, while Teh, who joined GPS from now-defunct EY member firm LC Lawyers last year, will be a special counsel.
“Over the past six months we have been hard at work to realize the dream of starting a law firm fully dedicated to the core practices of dispute resolution, compliance and investigations, and the specialist practices of construction, insolvency, and asset recovery,” said Georgiou in a LinkedIn post.
Georgiou, a former disputes partner at Baker Botts and Jones Day, co-founded GPS in 2017 along with Sonny Payne and Brett Stewien. The firm was known as GPS McQuhae for a while, but reverted to GPS after partner Ben McQuhae, also formerly of Jones Day, left to set up his own firm.
The exits leave GPS with three partners: Payne, Stewien, and John Koh, who joined last year from FitzGerald Lawyers. It is understood that GPS Legal will be renamed soon.
