Law.com reports…
A total of nine lawyers and paralegals are making the move, reuniting with former Hong Kong office managing partner Wing Cheung, who made the jump earlier this month.
Holman Fenwick Willan has hired Locke Lord’s entire Hong Kong team, leaving questions about the future of the Texas firm’s office in the Asian financial center.
A total of nine lawyers and paralegals, including partner Matthew Wong and of counsel King Hui and Roger Wong, are making the move. They follow former Locke Lord Hong Kong office managing partner Wing Cheung, who joined Holman Fenwick earlier this month with a trainee and paralegal.
The entire team, including Cheung, focuses on corporate finance deals, including initial public offerings, as well as mergers and acquisitions, private equity and other Hong Kong law transactions work. In 2017, Cheung and Matthew Wong advised Southwest Securities (HK) Capital Ltd. as the sole sponsor on a $9 million listing in Hong Kong of Nexion Technologies Ltd., a Singapore-based cyber infrastructure and cyber security solutions provider.
Matthew Wong leaves Locke Lord after more than six years with the firm. He joined in 2013 with Cheung when Locke Lord formed an association with Cheung’s own practice Cheung & Lee; the two firms integrated in 2015. Before that, Wong did stints as a partner at Stephenson Harwood, Bird & Bird and K&L Gates.
“This major hire and Wing’s earlier arrival represents a step-change to our transactional capabilities in Greater China,” said Patrick Yeung, Holman Fenwick’s Hong Kong office head, in a statement.
Richard Crump, Holman Fenwick’s Singapore-based global senior partner, added that the group hire is an important step in the continued growth of the firm’s global corporate and finance offerings.
Read more at https://www.law.com/2019/11/26/hfw-hires-locke-lords-entire-hong-kong-team/