ZICOlaw Vietnam has acquired local boutique Garnet Law and hired Phuc Nguyen, its founder and managing partner, as a partner in Ho Chi Minh City.
The nine-year-old, six-lawyer Garnet Law advised local and foreign clients on various corporate, commercial and real estate matters.
These new hires take ZICOlaw Vietnam’s headcount to three partners and 15 associates. Established in 2011, the firm also has operations in Hanoi.
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.