Morrison Foerster has strengthened the firm’s private equity and M&A capabilities in Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and Japan with the addition of Scott Jalowayski to its corporate group in Singapore as a partner.
This marks a return for Jalowayski, who was most recently Gibson Dunn’s global private equity practice co-chair, to Mofo where he previously practised as an associate and later a partner in the 2000s.
Tabitha Saw, co-managing partner of Morrison Foerster’s Singapore office, told Asia Business Law Journal that Jalowayski would focus on expanding into strategic sectors for the firm, such as energy transition, renewables, technology and digital infrastructure.
“Scott brings several key client relationships that will strengthen our platform, supporting our growth across Asia and globally, and further solidifying our strategic positioning in Asia,” said Saw.
Saw added that Jalowayski, who had spent time working in Tokyo during his previous stint at Mofo and later at Ropes & Gray, would also play a crucial role in expanding Mofo’s Japan-focused work.
Having started his legal career as an associate at Kelley Drye & Warren in New York in 1998, Jalowayski joined Mofo in 2000 and spent eight years with the firm in Tokyo and Hong Kong, during which he made partner in 2008. Before moving to Gibson Dunn as a partner in 2017, he had served as a partner at Ropes & Gray in Tokyo and Hong Kong for nine years.
At Gibson Dunn, where he was a founding partner of the firm’s Asia private equity practice and most recently co-chair of its global private equity practice group, Jalowayski was based in the Singapore office while splitting his time in Hong Kong.
Jalowayski specialises in advising private equity funds as well as global and regional investment managers on M&A transactions and investments in Asia, including acting for Goldman Sachs Private Equity in its USD750 million acquisition, together with China’s Pagoda Investment and Queensland Investment Corporation, of Australian oncology services provider Icon Cancer Care in 2017.
