With emerging technologies driving demand for novel legal advisory, law firms are increasingly seeing a pressing need to strategise their teams accordingly. Leaders share with ALB how they are taking essential technological knowledge into consideration when making hires that enable their firms to come on top in client work.

PwC has named Rachel Eng, managing director of its Singapore member law firm Eng and Co., to its Global Legal Leadership team. In her new role, she will assist in driving the growth and expansion of PwC’s Global Legal Service network.

Veteran corporate lawyer Rachel Eng is exiting Singapore Big Four firm WongPartnership, where she spent more than two decades, to join accounting firm PwC’s legal arm. Eng is PwC’s most high-profile hire in Asia so far.

Singapore Big Four firm WongPartnership has opened an office in Yangon, Myanmar, as it looks to expand its Asian footprint.