As our readers know, members of our Asia team each year participate in numerous seminars related to US biglaw recruiting in Asia.  We record these events from time to time and will begin sharing them on the Asia Chronicles since most of our readers cannot attend such events. Please follow the links below for excerpts [...]

Happy Chinese New Year! We were extremely busy the past few months, including most of our US based team working from our Hong Kong offices during November and December. As a follow up from our recent post, which listed our 62 US associate and counsel placements in Asia last year (vast majority in HK / [...]

The lateral hiring market for biglaw US attorneys has slowed down substantially in the past four months.   We at Kinney have been fortunate to have continued a nice run of placements, but even our pace has slowed due to market conditions.  We have made 62 placements of US associates and counsels at law firms in [...]

While not as illustrious or entertaining as the recent Emmys, the ALB Hong Kong Law awards often showcase and illuminate the many exciting developments in the Hong Kong legal markets over the past year.   The event, a black tie affair, is in its 10th year and is considered by many to be the “night of [...]

In our ever-present quest to read the tea leaves for candidates who are attempting to time their moves to Asia to maximize the development of their skills while not “missing the boat”, one place we always want to look is the IPO market. Current IPO market sentiment in China is slightly gloomy, but the headlines [...]

In the past month, while cap markets hiring has finally slowed, we have made 4 placements in fund formation at US and UK firms, and we expect a few more of such hires in the next few weeks in the region.  In years past, we would make less than four of such placements in Hong [...]

Mongolia.   The name itself conjures up images of warrior horse-lords, high-end cashmere, vast expanses of steppe, endless “ceremonial” toasts of vodka and fermented mare’s milk, and the legendary Genghis Khan (who, in my mind’s eye, looks a bit like Jason Momoa in HBO’s Game of Thrones).   OK, maybe I’m the only one who thinks of [...]

Please check out our daily blog, www.theasiachronicles.com, where we also have a new post today by Alexis Lamb, regarding the rising need for US litigation associates in Asia, among our numerous daily news posts on international biglaw in Asia. Here we are in the traditional vacation time of July and August, when interview processes can [...]

Evan here, writing from a lounge on a short layover at LAX. Robert and I just returned to the US this morning from another exhausting China trip (8+ meetings per day makes for early rises and late evenings), something we repeat about every other month. No surprise, but all indications on the ground, from meetings [...]

Evan Jowers here, with a quick post before the New Year holiday. As you know from our recent posts, Robert Kinney and I have continued our pattern this year of traveling to Hong Kong / China to meet personally with clients and learn of openings (six trips each this year – ouch). Alexis Lamb of [...]

Evan here. Robert Kinney and I just returned from another China trip and we will post market notes from that trip shortly at our blog, theasiachronicles.com. As you know, we are often quoted and / or featured in various industry publications regarding our US biglaw attorney recruiting and market expertise in Asia. This month, find [...]

Greetings to our readers. Robert Kinney here. I’m fresh from a visit to our Hong Kong office, where Evan Jowers and I had a big week with literally dozens of client meetings over 10 days. It is difficult to conceive of for most of our readers who are not in Hong Kong/China already, but the [...]