Skip to main content

newsDLA Piper has hired M&A expert Xin Fang as a partner in its Hong Kong corporate practice from Mayer Brown, where she was a counsel.

She becomes DLA’s fifth partner hire in Hong Kong in just over a year, and its second in as many months. The most recent two hires were from Linklaters: In December, the firm added banking expert Trinh Hoang, while in May, it hired projects lawyer Crystal Chen.  

Fang advises on cross-border M&As, joint ventures, private equity transactions and corporate and commercial law with a focus on Greater China and the Asia-Pacific region. She also negotiates shareholder agreements, share purchase agreements and business transfer agreements.

With Fang’s arrival, DLA now has 28 partners in Hong Kong.

TO CONTACT EDITORIAL TEAM, PLEASE EMAIL ALBEDITOR@THOMSONREUTERS.COM

Related Articles

Appointments

Hong Kong’s PC Woo welcomes back litigator in leadership role

by Sarah Wong |

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.

Appointments

Links HK partner becomes MoFo's 2nd Asia PE hire in days

by Asian Legal Business《亚洲法律杂志》 |

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.

Appointments

SG: MoFo welcomes back PE heavyweight from Gibson Dunn

by Sarah Wong |

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.