DLA Piper is ranked first in Asia Pacific and Greater China M&A legal advisor by deal volume league tables, produced by Mergermarket for Q1-Q3 2010. The international legal practice advised a total of 52 deals
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Dechert’s Global M&A Group Closes the Summer with Multiple Deals
Dechert’s global M&A team of lawyers have been very busy – closing out the summer in hot fashion with deals throughout the United States, Asia, and Europe in a wide range of industry sectors
Read moreGolden Opportunities for Native Chinese Senior Cap Markets Associates
Robert here. Senior cap markets associates at top US firms who are native Chinese have never been as marketable in HK / China as they are today. While such persons have over the past five
Read moreTake a look at part one of Mark Schaub’s (Partner, King & Wood) article on Chinese M&A deals: www.chinalawinsight.com
Read moreSydney, Australia and Asia U.S. Associate Openings
Robert here. The number of US associate openings in Asia continue to increase substantially (including at two top 10 US firms coming off hiring freeze very recently), especially in HK / China, where we have
Read moreCandidate-Financed Interview Trips – Back in Style
Robert Kinney here, writing from my hometown, Austin, Texas. We’re enjoying fine weather for our music conference, South by Southwest (SXSW) this this week, and I’m having a slow week (on purpose) at work. Slow,
Read moreKinney Asia Teamwork / Two Special M&A Opportunities (HK and SHG)
Robert here, writing from Hong Kong. The past week has been very busy, thus it has taken a couple of weeks to put up another post. The number of US associate openings continues to increase
Read moreWill you be a Foreign Lawyer or Overseas Lawyer in Hong Kong?
Robert here. Having arrived back in the US last night, I’m sitting up at 3 am now reflecting on the results of another outstanding visit to Hong Kong. Several of us were in town and
Read moreChina Recovery in ’09
Robert here. As promised, in this post we will provide some basic evidence of encouraging signs that China’s economy could recover in ’09. As mentioned in previous AC posts and comments, we are, naturally, in
Read moreHelp for China M&A is on the Way?
Robert here, writing from sunny Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, where my wife and I call home when I am not traveling in Asia and the Middle East. After being abroad 10 of 12 weeks, it
Read moreSurveying the Asia Markets
Here we sit in Hong Kong, midway through our semiannual review and survey of the major law firm market here. While we normally have someone on the ground here in Hong Kong, only twice a
Read moreA Look at Current Hiring Trends
On Monday we discussed some positive trends in M&A in Asia, notwithstanding the turmoil in credit markets and overall economic downturn globally. Today, we discuss very briefly some of the lateral hiring trends we have
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