RHTLaw appoints deputy MP, general counsel and senior foreign counsel, K&E recruits debt finance partner from Linklaters, and more in this week’s Asia Appointments table.

DLA Piper grows its Greater China corporate and employment practices, Mayer Brown nabs Lee International’s managing partner, Bird & Bird recruits equity capital markets partner in HK, and much more in our weekly Asia appointments table.

Bird & Bird has recruited equity capital markets partner Wing On Chui from King & Wood Mallesons in Hong Kong.

Bird & Bird has hired former Taylor Wessing counsel Zhaofeng Zhou as a partner in its competition group in Beijing.

Bird & Bird has signed a merger agreement with Sydney-based law firm Truman Hoyle, with the move helping the U.K. firm to open its first Australian office.

Bird & Bird has hired TMT specialist Michelle Chan as a partner in its Hong Kong office.