Following the recent departure of two Shanghai partners, US firm Pillbury has elected two US-qualified counsel to partnership to reinforce its Shanghai office.
Following the recent departure of two Shanghai partners, US firm Pillbury has elected two US-qualified counsel to partnership to reinforce its Shanghai office.The newly promoted partners are Scott Kline and Woon-Wah Siu. Kline has built a significant book of business focusing primarily on capital market transactions, M&A and corporate representation of China-based companies seeking access to US capital markets. Siu, meanwhile, has 15 years of experience advising on corporate governance matters and securities law and SRO compliance, as well as counselling US and foreign investors in M&A transactions and funds formation and investment.
The two promotions in Shanghai are part of Pillsbury’s firm-wide promotion of ten, which will see eight lawyers admitted to partnership and two elected to counsel, effective 1 January 2011. The latest promotion round will bring the number of Shanghai partners back to six.
In the past three months, Meg Utterback, former partner and co-chair of Pilsbury’s international arbitration practice, left to join King & Wood’s Shanghai office and Joseph Chan, veteran private equity and capital markets partner, defected to US rival firm Sidley Austin. ALB
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