Former Global Law Office partner Michael Yu, has defied recent movement trends (international to PRC firm) by moving into international firm Norton Rose.

Yu’s corporate expertise includes M&A work, IPOs and private placements. He has advised many large-scale projects including China Mobile’s asset acquisition in eight different provinces, CNOOC and Shell Petrochemicals’ US$2.7bn financing project, China Netcom’s RMB5bn bond issuance and the establishment of BOCI Limited.
 
Yu’s appointment comes after the appointment of Lynn Yang (former Allen & Overy of counsel) as corporate and insurance partner in its Shanghai office. Both appointments are part of Norton Rose’s strategy for its China growth ambitions."We are concentrating on growing our China offices to reflect the demands of our clients,” said Tim Marsden, London-based group head of corporate at Norton Rose.

The new addition will take the partner headcount in Beijing to six and bring the total to 45 at partner level across the Norton Rose’s Asian offices. ALB

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