UK law firm Norton Rose is betting its future on growth in the Asia-Pacific, having agreed yesterday to team up with Deacons Australia.
The two firms will officially join forces on January 1, 2010, with the five Australian offices -- in Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney -- dropping the Deacons brand and becoming part of a new firm that will be called the Norton Rose Group.
Deacons Australia includes 146 partners and boosts Norton Rose's headcount in Asia-Pacific to more than 700 fee-earners in 12 offices. The tie-up ends a 17-year joint venture between Deacons in Hong Kong and Australia, but some Deacons lawyers based in Singapore and Jakarta are...
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