Dechert LLP announced today that 12 of its lawyers have been recognized in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2017. The guide also recommended the firm in ten practice area categories.
The Legal 500 analyzes the capabilities of law firms across the world, with a comprehensive research program revised and updated every year to bring the most up-to-date vision of the global legal market. The rankings highlight the practice area teams that are providing the most cutting-edge and innovative advice to corporate counsel. Research is based on feedback from 250,000 clients worldwide, submissions from law firms and interviews with leading private practice lawyers.
Three Dechert lawyers were singled out by The Legal 500 for its “Leading Lawyer” distinction:
- Dean Collins, Singapore: Foreign Firms: Investment Funds
- Angelyn Lim, Hong Kong: Investment Funds
- Jingzhou Tao, China: Foreign Firms: Dispute Resolution
Each of the following four lawyers was recognized as a “Next Generation Lawyer”:
- Claire Bentley, Singapore: Foreign Firms: Investment Funds
- Albert Tse, Singapore: Foreign Firms: Investment Funds
- Mariana Zhong, China: Foreign Firms: Dispute Resolution
- Kylee Zhu, Hong Kong: Investment Funds
The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2017 also recommended the following lawyers:
- David Cho, South Korea: Corporate and M&A
- Dean Collins, Singapore: Foreign Firms: Investment Funds
- Karl J. Paulson Egbert, Hong Kong: Investment Funds
- Lewis Ho, Hong Kong: Intellectual Property
- Angelyn Lim, Hong Kong: Investment Funds; Hong Kong: Regulatory
- Iris Park, South Korea: Corporate and M&A
- Jingzhou Tao, China: Foreign Firms: Dispute Resolution
- Kareena Teh, Hong Kong: Dispute Resolution: Litigation; Hong Kong: Regulatory; Hong Kong: Regulatory: Anti-Corruption and Compliance
- Albert Tse, Singapore: Foreign Firms: Investment Funds
- Mariana Zhong, China: Foreign Firms: Dispute Resolution
In addition, Dechert was recognized as a leading firm in the following practice areas:
- China: Foreign Firms: Corporate and M&A
- China: Foreign Firms: Dispute Resolution
- China: Foreign Firms: Intellectual Property
- Hong Kong: Dispute Resolution: Litigation
- Hong Kong: Intellectual Property
- Hong Kong: Investment Funds
- Hong Kong: Regulatory
- Hong Kong: Regulatory: Anti-Corruption and Compliance
- Singapore: Foreign Firms: Investment Funds
- South Korea: Foreign Firms: Corporate and M&A
About Dechert
Dechert is a global specialist law firm with a deep bench of experts focused on sectors with the greatest complexities and highest regulatory demands. We deliver practical commercial insight and judgment to our clients’ most important matters. Nothing stands in the way of giving clients the best of the firm’s entrepreneurial energy and seamless collaboration in a way that is distinctively Dechert.