Former Yahoo! Inc Asia-Pacific general counsel Jim Wu has left the Internet company to rejoin K&L Gates as a corporate partner in the firm’s Taipei and Palo Alto offices.

Wu had previously been a founding partner of the Taipei and San Francisco offices of Preston Gates & Ellis, which combined with Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham in 2007 to form K&L Gates.

After his first stint with K&L Gates, Wu worked in-house for about 15 years, advising on M&A, private equity financing, investments, corporate securities and corporate governance matters.

The addition of Wu follows a string of K&L Gates hires in Asia in 2014, including corporate partner Frank Voon in Beijing, finance partner Philip Hyde in Hong Kong and Tokyo, investment management partner Greg Heaton in Hong Kong, corporate partner Siew Kam Boon in Singapore and Shanghai, and commercial disputes partner Takahiro Hoshino and real estate partner Takahiro Tsumagari in Tokyo.

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