Morgan, Lewis & Bockius has hired Alice Huang as a funds partner in Hong Kong from PRC law firm Fangda Partners.
Huang, who is the U.S. firm’s 16th partner addition in Greater China this year, focuses on fund formation and asset management regulatory, as well as counselling advice. She advises fund sponsors based in the United States and Asia, and also represents institutional investors, including sovereign and pension funds, in connection with their investments in global private funds.
Before her two-and-a-half year stint at Fangda, Huang was general counsel at Taiwan-based manufacturer and private equity firm H&Q Asia Pacific. Earlier in her career, she was a tax manager at Deloitte and worked as an associate at first O'Melveny & Myers and then Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.
The Philadelphia-headquartered Morgan Lewis firm has been on an expansion tear in Greater China this year, which started with its announcement of a Hong Kong office – currently operating in association with Luk & Partners – in January.
The firm raided Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe for 13 partners, including its former capital markets head Edwin Luk, who currently leads Morgan Lewis’s Hong Kong office. A few months later, in March, the firm nabbed a five-lawyer team led by employment partner K. Lesli Ligorner from Simmons & Simmons in Shanghai, and hired litigation partner Charles Mo in Hong Kong from Winston & Strawn in September.
