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Singapore corporate boutique BTPLaw has hired Lynn Ariele Soh and Leeza Lee as partners. Soh was most recently a director at Eng & Co, the Singapore member firm of PwC Legal, while Lee was a managing associate at Linklaters’ Hong Kong office.
MCI (P) 003/02/2023 issn 0219 – 6875 KDN PPS 1867/10/2015(025605) INDONESIA’S NEW CAPITAL GENERATES LEGAL WORK ASIA’S LARGEST, FASTEST-GROWING FIRMS SPOTLIGHTED
Political leaders and experts forecast how the next decade’s global challenges may change life in Singapore.
The year 2022 could not have panned out more differently for the two Asian hubs. Hong Kong, which aligned itself with China’s Zero COVID policy until quite recently, has seen its economy slow and professionals head for the exit; however, its fundamentals remain strong, and the city is known for nothing if not its resilience. And while Singapore might have gained ground in the process – and attracted a flurry of law firms -the growth of its legal industry could be constrained by its innate drawbacks.
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deals picked up steam throughout Asia Pacific during the first half of 2021, in no small measure due to a rebound from the worst economic ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic through 2020. With vaccine rollouts continuing and border restrictions being gradually loosened, M&A lawyers can look forward to an upswing in work in 2022 and beyond.