Clifford Chance is set to establish a service delivery and innovation hub for the Asia-Pacific region in Singapore, the firm’s first outside Europe and the U.S.

The initiative, which will be supported by the Singapore Economic Development Board, “will act as Clifford Chance's regional centre to drive more innovative, efficient, effective and robust client service delivery. It will also identify, develop, test and roll out new legal technology solutions across Asia Pacific and beyond,” the firm said in a release.

The hub is expected to provide back-end support for clients in areas such as knowledge, legal technology, project and resource management, legal engineering, and innovation, and harness the firm’s expertise in legal project management, as well as its investment in new technology platforms, including artificial intelligence (AI), expert systems and automation.