US law firm Latham Watkins has hired three new partners to join its Hong Kong unit to fortify its private equity and leveraged finance advisory business, the company said in a statement on Wednesday.
The firm, which rose to 31st last year on the Dealogic Asia ex-Japan mergers and acquisitions league table from 53rd the year before, wooed Simon Cooke from Clifford Chance, a London-headquartered law firm.
Cooke specialised in private and public MA and corporate finance with a focus on pan-Asian private equity transactions and also advised on growth capital, pre-IPO investments and private investment in public equity, the firm said...
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