Hong Kong boutique Hugill & Ip has added disputes specialist Fiona Chan as a partner from fellow city firm Boase Cohen & Collins.
Chan advises on civil and commercial litigation, family law, wills, probate and contentious and non-contentious estate administration, among other matters. She had been with Boase Cohen since 2005.
Hugill & Ip, which was established in 2018, now has seven partners.
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.