Tiang & Co., Big Four accounting outfit PwC’s Hong Kong member firm, has hired Martyn Huckerby as the head of its Asia Pacific competition law practice from King & Wood Mallesons, where he was a partner in that firm’s Shanghai office.

Huckerby’s areas of expertise include corporate, regulatory, and competition/antitrust law. He has advised clients on the establishment, expansion and restructuring of businesses -- including joint ventures -- in China and across Asia.

His clients include companies in the TMT, education, telecommunications and broadcasting, retail, consumer goods, manufacturing, food and agribusiness sectors.  

Huckerby spent almost 14 years with KWM and the legacy Mallesons Stephen Jaques in two stints, in between which he was a senior associate at Clifford Chance. Between 2008 and 2012, he was the legacy Australian firm’s chief representative in China.  

 

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