贝克·麦坚时律师事务所迎来仲裁业务专家岑君毅律师（左）以合伙人身份携其团队成员张哲、吴玮两位律师加盟其香港办公室。此前，岑律师在安胜恪道律师事务所领导其亚洲仲裁业务。
岑律师执业范围覆盖争议解决的各个领域，尤其是与中国市场相关的事务、国际仲裁、跨境争议、复杂商业争议、体育行业相关争议，以及保险和再保险等。
在加入贝克·麦坚时之前，岑律师在安胜恪道执业近三年半。在此之前，他于2018年至2019年执业于Locke Lord律师事务所。岑律师更早前以合伙人身份工作过的律所还包括特劳特·桑德斯律师事务所、博锐律师事务所、安睿顺德伦律师事务所，以及欧华律师事务所。
岑律师加盟后，贝克·麦坚时香港办公室共有45位合伙人，其中包括去年1月和3月加盟的Joy Lam和Thomas Tarala律师，以及去年7月加盟的Victoria Lloyd律师。
Bakers lands Addleshaws’ HK disputes head
Baker McKenzie has hired a three-lawyer arbitration team in Hong Kong from the departing Addleshaw Goddard. Led by partner and disputes head Ronald Sum (L), the team also consists of associates. Plato Cheung and Beryl Wu.
Earlier this year, Addleshaw Goddard had announced it would be closing its Hong Kong office. Last month, litigation partner Janie Wong joined Howse Williams.
The addition of Sum continues a sequence of lateral partner hires at Baker McKenzie Hong Kong over the past 14 months. Capital markets specialist Thomas Tarala joined in March from HNA Group where he was general counsel, prior to which Joy Lam, a former Sidley Austin partner specialising in blockchain and virtual assets, moved in January. In July last year, Baker McKenzie’s Hong Kong office welcomed capital markets and M&A expert Victoria Lloyd as partner from Ropes & Gray.
Sum advises on dispute resolution with special focus on mainland China-related issues, international arbitration, cross-border disputes, commercial disputes, sports-related disputes, insurance and reinsurance. In international arbitration, he has acted as both counsel and arbitrator in administered arbitration proceedings in Hong Kong, Mainland China, Singapore, Australia, London and the U.S.
Sum joined Addleshaws in 2019 from Locke Lorde, where he was the Hong Kong from Locke Lord, where he was the East Asia head of arbitration and ADR. Prior to that, he was a partner at Troutman Sanders (now Troutman Pepper). Sum has also been a partner at Eversheds Sutherland, Blank Rome, and DLA Piper.
With this addition, Baker McKenzie now has 45 partners in Hong Kong.
