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 in Asia Pacific during this period, an increase of 100% from its 10th position in Q3 2009 with 26 deals, despite persistent challenging market conditions. In Greater China, the firm advised a total of 27 deals during this period, an increase of 125% from its 9th position in Q3 2009 with 12 deals (more…)
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 (more…)
Take a look at part one of Mark Schaub’s (Partner, King & Wood) article on Chinese M&A deals: www.chinalawinsight.com
Evan 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 been making multiple placements on a weekly basis recently. This week has been a particularly good week, with Yuliya and [...]
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, for me, is about 9 calls a day with candidates and clients, instead of 20 or 30. One of the [...]
Evan 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 in Asia, especially in Hong Kong and Greater China, and especially in now-busy capital markets groups. Two particularly special and [...]
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 able to meet with dozens of people while there, some of whom are candidates and some of whom are representatives [...]
Evan 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 frequent conversations with law firm partners and other business leaders in Asia, and the prevailing opinion, even from the most [...]
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 year are both authors of this column in town gathering and compiling the latest and greatest information about who is [...]
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 been seeing in Asia recently and in ’08 in general. We have not seen an overall reduction in hiring of [...]
