Mayer Brown JSM has promoted David Harrison, Vincent Law, Benjamin Thompson and Nancy Leung to the firm’s partnership in Asia. They are part of the 21 promotions the firm has announced globally.

Law and Leung are based in Mayer Brown’s Hong Kong office, while Harrison and Thompson are based in Ho Chi Minh City and Singapore, respectively.

Harrison’s practice focuses on M&A and bank financing. As part of the corporate and securities team, he specialises in advising development finance institutions and commercial banks on credit lending and debt restructurings in emerging Asian markets like Vietnam, Mongolia, Bangladesh and Cambodia.

Law is part of the litigation and dispute resolution team, and his areas of expertise are regulatory and compliance, disciplinary proceedings, employment disputes, sexual discrimination, insolvency and shipping finance.

Also a member of the firm’s litigation and dispute resolution group, Leung focuses on debt recovery and liquidation-related litigation, property-related litigation, vendor purchaser summons, compulsory sale applications, tenancy matters, judicial review proceedings, PRC-related disputes, commercial disputes and arbitration.

Thompson is a member of the firm’s global Projects group, and focuses particularly on project financings in Asia. Infrastructure and power (and renewable power in particular) are his areas of expertise, and he has advised both sponsors and lenders on the development and financing of several of the highest-profile power projects in Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia and Myanmar.

The appointments are scheduled to take effect from Jan. 1, 2015.