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.
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.