Clifford Chance has hired corporate specialist Frank Yuen as a partner in its Hong Kong office from local firm Woo Kwan Lee & Lo (WKLL).
Yuen’s principal practice areas include corporate matters including capital markets, listings, privatisations, mergers and acquisitions, and listed companies’ compliance. He became a partner at WKLL in 1997.
With the new addition, Clifford Chance will have 34 corporate partners in the APAC region.
Japan’s Tokyo International Law Office has bolstered its team with the addition of two senior hires: Disputes lawyer Victor Sai from Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch in San Diego, and in-house counsel Yuri Aihara from Fujifilm.
Lateral hiring dried up a little bit in December, but three Indian law firms still brought in partners. Dentons Link Legal landed its seventh of the year, while Lumiere Law Partners lost three more.
Malaysian firm LAW Partnership, which specialises in IP and disputes, has strengthened its corporate offering after hiring Raphael Tay as the head of its corporate and commercial practice in Kuala Lumpur from Lee Hishammuddin Allen & Gledhill.