The Lawyer (UK) reports that Bird & Bird’s 2015 isn’t much fun in China…Their latest update says …
Bird & Bird’s China practice takes another hit
Bird & Bird has suffered another departure from its Greater China practice just a month after a six-person team quit for IP consultancy Awapatent.
While that defection impacted the firm’s IP practice, with Hong Kong IP rainmaker Ai-Leen Lim among those that left, the latest departure is from the firm’s Beijing employment practice.
Grace Chen, who has spent the past 15 years advising technology companies in the media, IT, life sciences and clean-technology sectors, has quit the firm for Covington & Burling.
Although so many departures in such a short space of time is bound to hurt a firm that now has 12 partners working across Beijing and Hong Kong, the firm has already started to rebuild, bringing in King & Wood Mallesons corporate partner Wing On Chui in February.
Given that CEO David Kerr has made growth in Asia one of Bird & Bird’s top priorities, it’s no wonder that the firm would want to move fast.
