A four-member private equity team from Ropes & Gray, led by partner Daniel Yeh, has moved to White & Case in Hong Kong.
All four join their new firm as partners, with Yeh being named head of private equity for Asia-Pacific.
Joining Yeh are Steven Sha, a former counsel at Ropes, and William Fong and Paul Tang, who were both associates at their previous firm.
The lawyers are expected to advise private equity sponsors, financial investors and their portfolio companies, as well as private and public companies, on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, including leveraged buy-outs, bolt-on and carve-out acquisitions, joint ventures, structured investments, take-private deals and other public company transactions.
In October, Ropes lost M&A partner Jieni Gu in Shanghai to PRC firm Haiwen & Partners. And in 2017, its Hong Kong office hired Jackie Kahng has a finance partner from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett.