International legal practice, Norton Rose Hong Kong today announced that Gigi Cheah and Justin Davidson are to join their global intellectual property, communications, media and technology team as significant lateral partner level hires to develop that practice in Asia.
Gigi Cheah is a non contentious intellectual property and technology lawyer. She specialises in technology procurement, licensing; outsourcing, life sciences, data privacy and commercial work as well as telecoms broadcasting and competition work.
Justin Davidson is both a contentious and non contentious intellectual property lawyer. His focus is on transactional, exploitation and advisory intellectual property work; intellectual property disputes and prosecution; general commercial and life sciences work.
Gigi and Justin will both join from the Hong Kong office of DLA Piper.
David Stannard, Head of Asia for Norton Rose Group, said:
“I welcome Gigi and Justin to the team. They are exactly the kind of dynamic, highly skilled and experienced lawyers in this important specialist area we are looking for to build and take forward our Hong Kong and Asia region technology practice. Our team in Asia is continuing to grow and these appointments reflect our continued commitment and investment to the technology sector.”
Michael Rebeiro, Head of Technology, Norton Rose LLP, commented:
“With the expansion of Norton Rose Group following the merger with Norton Rose Australia, we are growing an intellectual property and technology practice in Asia Pacific as part of our global offering in this area. Technology is one of the five key strength areas of our business”.
This brings our total Asia Pacific partner level to over 200 across the Norton Rose Group offices in the region. In Asia Pacific, we have more than 700 lawyers, operating from 13 offices, creating a major legal practice across the entire region.
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