Baker McKenzie has bolstered its capital markets and M&A practice in Hong Kong with the addition of Victoria Lloyd from Ropes & Gray.
With more than 25 years of experience, Lloyd advises on corporate and commercial, corporate finance, and M&A matters.
Lloyd’s hire takes the number of partners at Baker McKenzie’s Hong Kong office to 40.
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Allen & Overy has advised ESR Group on the establishment by its South Korean platform of Korea’s first perpetual, open-ended core logistics fund, with Baker McKenzie representing APG Asset Management on its investment into the fund exceeding $400 million.
Tokyo International Law Office has hired corporate expert Jean-Denis Marx as a partner from Baker McKenzie, where he had worked for three decades.
In October, Baker McKenzie entered into a joint venture with Korean law firm KL Partners in a show of the firm’s commitment to grow in Asia at a time when some other international firms were shrinking their footprints. The JV will be jointly run by Bakers’ Jae-Hyon Ahn and KL’s Beomsu Kim, who tell ALB how this will benefit clients in both Korea and overseas.