Morrison Foerster (MoFo) has lost two more partners to Jingtian & Gongcheng, after its Singapore managing partner Shirin Tang and partner Lip Kian Ang moved to Baker McKenzie Wong & Leow this week.
With the arrival of Vivian Yiu and Huang Ke as partners, Jingtian & Gongcheng’s Hong Kong office now has 15 partners.
Yiu specialises in primary and secondary equity offerings in Hong Kong, M&A, and the formation of joint ventures. She was previously based in MoFo’s Hong Kong office, where she co-led with Huang advising the underwriters on TYK Medicines’ HKD579 million (USD74.26 million) IPO in Hong Kong, the largest 18A listing to date this year. She also acted as lead counsel for the joint sponsors in the third HKEX de-SPAC.
Prior to MoFo, Yiu was a partner at Allen & Overy (now A&O Shearman).
Huang also focuses on capital markets and can handle international equity and debt offerings related to 144A and Regulation S, covering clients from mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia.
Huang joined MoFo as a partner in 2019 and previously practised at O’Melveny and Allen & Overy.
The latest departure follows MoFo’s confirmation of its shutdown of the 26-year-old Beijing office. The closure directly impacted Huang, who was dual-based in Beijing and Shanghai. His exit leaves only two partners in the Shanghai office, Sun Chuan and Zhao Rongjing.
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