53 New Partners At DLA Piper

Seven of those new partners will be Asia based .

Amsterdam, Hong Kong, New York, Oslo, San Diego and San Franciso all receive three new partners

By practice area, litigation and regulation saw the largest intake of new partners with 14. Corporate and finance both saw 12 promotions each, followed by intellectual property on nine.

The promotions, which take effect from 1 January 2011 in the US and 1 May 2011 for the EMEA and Asia regions, mark an increase on last year, when DLA made up 41 internationally with only three making partner in London. The firm made up 53 in 2009, with eight in London.

Here are the Asia appointments. To see the full story pop over to Legal Week (UK)

http://www.legalweek.com/legal-week/news/2044252/dla-makes-partners-world-uk-lawyers

Beijing
Richard Wageman, intellectual property and technology
Sammy Fang, litigation and regulation

Hong Kong
Brett Stewien, corporate
Jolyon Ellwood-Russell, finance and projects
Edward Chatterton, intellectual property and technology

Singapore
Biswajit Chatterjee, corporate

Tokyo
Daniel Lee, corporate