15 July 2021 Top 10 Headlines | APARNA SAI Mayer Brown has hired eight capital markets lawyers in Hong Kong, including partners Guiping Lu, Philip Hyde, Bonnie Yung and Jason Wang.
While Lu and Hyde join from K&L Gates, Yung and Wang were most recently with EY’s Hong Kong law firm, LC Lawyers. Read More | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For more news, click here to visit the website |
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