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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