DLA Piper has hired John Viverito and Myles Hankin from Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, and Joseph Bauerschmidt from Jones Day, as partners in its corporate group in Singapore. The three had worked together at Jones Day previously.

Viverito will take on the role of DLA’s office managing partner for Singapore, with his predecessor, John Goulios, assuming a regional role as co-head of the Asia Pacific insurance practice. Hired from Jones Day by Gibson Dunn when the latter firm opened its Singapore office back in 2008, Viverito’s expertise includes general corporate and commercial transactions, mergers and acquisitions, structured finance, real estate and energy.  

Bauerschmidt, who moved to Asia in 1997, focuses on securities offerings in public and private capital markets, representing banks as well as corporate issuers.

Hankin, who was an of counsel with Gibson Dunn, has experience in energy and natural resources, infrastructure, project finance, construction and transportation, mergers and acquisitions, real estate, lending and structured finance, as well as general corporate transactional and advisory work.

“I am delighted to welcome John, Joe and Myles to the corporate practice in Asia,” said Paul Chen, head the Asia corporate practice at DLA Piper. “They share our vision to expand and build in Singapore, and they bring with them sector expertise which will bolster our offering in Asia generally, and in the increasingly important ASEAN market, in particular.”

The arrival of the trio takes the number of partners full-time at DLA’s Singapore office from two (Goulios and Yu-Jin Tay) to five. Additionally, two partners, Peter Shelford and Timothy Tan, split their time between Singapore and Bangkok.