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Philip Georgiou, an international arbitration and litigation expert who co-founded Hong Kong law firm Georgiou Payne Stewien (GPS Legal), has left to launch his own firm, Georgiou Partnership.

Joining Georgiou in the move are GPS partners Kareena Teh and Randall Arthur. Insolvency disputes expert Arthur will be a partner at the new firm, while Teh, who joined GPS from now-defunct EY member firm LC Lawyers last year, will be a special counsel.

“Over the past six months we have been hard at work to realize the dream of starting a law firm fully dedicated to the core practices of dispute resolution, compliance and investigations, and the specialist practices of construction, insolvency, and asset recovery,” said Georgiou in a LinkedIn post.

Georgiou, a former disputes partner at Baker Botts and Jones Day, co-founded GPS in 2017 along with Sonny Payne and Brett Stewien. The firm was known as GPS McQuhae for a while, but reverted to GPS after partner Ben McQuhae, also formerly of Jones Day, left to set up his own firm.

The exits leave GPS with three partners: Payne, Stewien, and John Koh, who joined last year from FitzGerald Lawyers. It is understood that GPS Legal will be renamed soon.

 

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