Colin Ng & Partners has hired Sean La’Brooy from Wee Tay & Lim as a partner to lead its new professional liability and insurance practice group.
La’Brooy specialises in professional (including medical) liability disputes, disciplinary proceedings, international arbitration, dispute resolution, construction and engineering, and insurance matters.
La Brooy’s appointment means Singapore-based Colin Ng & Partners now has 17 partners for a total of 50 lawyers.
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.
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.
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.