Skip to main content

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has recruited finance and energy lawyer Thomas Ng from Linklaters as a partner in the firm’s Hong Kong office.

Ng advises primarily Chinese companies and financial institutions on their finance, projects and energy transactions worldwide.

“We are focused on developing the firm’s finance and energy practices in Asia and Tom’s appointment is the latest step in that process,” said Robert Ashworth, managing partner of Freshfields’ Asia practice, in a statement.

Prior to joining Freshfields, Ng was a partner in Linklaters’ Beijing office.

Ng is the second partner that Freshfields has plucked from Linklaters’ Asian offices in recent weeks. In mid-March, the firm hired Hong Kong-based capital markets partner David Ludwick from its Magic Circle rival.

Related Articles

Hong Kong’s PC Woo welcomes back litigator in leadership role

by Sarah Wong |

Hong Kong law firm PC Woo & Co. has appointed two new managing partners: Litigator Calvin Chow, who returns after a one-year stint at offshore firm Harneys, and Gary Wong, a long-standing corporate partner at the firm.

Links HK partner becomes MoFo's 2nd Asia PE hire in days

U.S. law firm Morrison Foerster has hired private equity and U.S. public M&A expert Xiaoxi Lin as a partner in its Hong Kong office from Linklaters, making its second lateral hire in the private equity space in Asia within just a week.

SG: MoFo welcomes back PE heavyweight from Gibson Dunn

by Sarah Wong |

Global law firm Morrison Foerster has announced that private equity veteran Scott Jalowayski will rejoin the firm as a partner in Singapore. Jalowayski most recently co-chaired the global private equity group at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.