Weil, Gotshal & Manges has hired private equity partner Tim Gardner from Latham & Watkins in the firm’s Hong Kong office.
Gardner, who was a partner at Latham & Watkins, advises both local and international clients on M&A and private equity transactions.
Before joining Latham & Watkins in 2006, he worked in Goldman Sachs’ Financial Institutions Group in New York, where he focused on M&A matters.
With the addition of Gardner, Weil Gotshal now has seven partners based in Hong Kong.
One Essex Court, a commercial set of barristers' chambers in London, has announced that Paul Tan, former partner and head of arbitration for Asia at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, has joined its ranks as an international counsel and arbitrator.
Global law firm Hogan Lovells has hired international arbitration expert Rob Palmer as a partner from rival Ashurst to boost its dispute resolution practice in Southeast Asia.
Anglo-German law firm CMS has strengthened its Hong Kong funds practice with the hire of Helen Wang as a partner from Mayer Brown, where she was a counsel.