To further strengthens its Asia regional practice, Sidley Austin Brown Wood, has appointed 2 new partners in the Hong Kong and Japan office respectively.
As a former consultant in the finance team at the Hong Kong office, Gloria Lam was just appointed partner. Likewise James V. Robertson was appointed a partner in Tokyo too.
In the past 13 years, Lam's principal areas of practice have been corporate finance, securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, securities regulatory advisory work, sino and foreign joint ventures, general corporate, and general commercial transactions.
Robertson, a fluent Japanese speaker, has worked on several major securitization transactions throughout Asia in the past. These include work in...