Big Four firm EY has added tax specialist James Choo as a partner in its Singapore office from Baker McKenzie Wong & Leow, where he was a local principal.
Choo advises on tax issues, with focus on international tax aspects of cross-border transactions. Prior to EY, he spent the entirety of his career at Baker McKenzie, the bulk of it being in Singapore.
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Indian law firm Trilegal has continued its hot hiring streak in 2023 with the addition of the year’s fourteenth lateral partner of the year – and the second within a week – in the form of corporate governance expert Sampath Rajagopalan, who returns to the firm from EY in Delhi.
Indian law firm Luthra and Luthra Law Offices has welcomed TMT expert Vikash Kukreti as a partner in Delhi from Big Four consulting firm EY, where he was director, regulatory advisory.
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.