Taylor Wessing has expanded its Dubai office by hiring construction partner Nick Carnell from Kennedys Solicitors.
Carnell, who will head Wessing’s Dubai construction practice, specialises in dispute resolution and contract drafting, and has advised property developers, funders, contractors, specialist sub-contractors, and insurers.
Carnell’s appointment follows the hire of finance partner Habib Ullah, and means Taylor Wessing now has seven partners at its Dubai office.
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.