澳大利亚律所铭德律师事务所近日聘请了三位前任美国众达律师事务所的律师加盟该所担任合伙人。
莫玮坤, 高惠妮和胡川明, 三位资本市场的资深律师将加盟铭德律所在香港的代表处。
Australian firm Minter Ellison has significantly increased its partner ranks in Hong Kong with a triple partner lateral hire from US firm Jones Day. Barbara Mok, Anne Ko and Katherine U, all capital markets and M&A lawyers, will join the firm in the new year increasing the total number of partners in its Hong Kong office to nine.
Mok’s practice focuses on China-focussed M&A and also includes work on behalf of issuers and sponsors in relation to listings on the HKSE. Ko’s work centres on equity offerings on the HKSE as well as regulatory and compliance, securities law, and corporate finance matters in addition to M&A and general corporate matters. Katherine U also boasts a practice that focuses on cross-border deals in Greater China. Her previous experience includes acting for Chinese issuers and Hong Kong investment banks on HKSE listings and secondary fund-raisings, takeovers, and privatisations of Hong Kong-listed companies.
The appointments of Mok, Ko and U follow the recent hires of Geraldine Johns-Putra from Linklaters and Anthony Chan from Hogan Lovells.
The appointments consolidate the firm’s position as both the second-largest Australian law firm in Asia (behind Mallesons Stephen Jaques) and the second-largest law firm in Asia-Pacific. Minters boasts some 1135* lawyers across its Australian, New Zealand and Greater China offices. PRC law firm Dacheng is remains Asia’s largest law firm with just under 1,500 lawyers across its 34 mainland and international offices.ALB
*Estimate based on ALB 30 2010 figures and reported hires since June 2010
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