The 2018 edition of The Legal 500 Asia Pacific was published and Bird & Bird achieved impressive results with 24 practice area listings, three more than last year, and 136 individual recognitions.
Bird & Bird is recognised as a top tier firm in four areas:
- China: Intellectual Property - Foreign Firms
- Hong Kong: Intellectual Property
- Hong Kong: TMT
- Singapore: Intellectual Property - Local Firms
Six Bird & Bird lawyers are singled out as “Leading Individuals”:
- Matthew Laight: Intellectual Property: Foreign Firms, China & Intellectual Property, Hong Kong
- Richard Keady: Dispute Resolution: Litigation, Hong Kong
- Alison Wong: Intellectual Property, Hong Kong
- Michelle Chan: TMT, Hong Kong
- Susan de Silva: Labour & Employment: Local firms, Singapore
- Alban Kang: Intellectual Property: Local firms, Singapore
The firm as has five individuals selected as “Next Generation Lawyers”:
- Dorie Wong: Intellectual Property: Foreign Firms, China
- Simon Wong: Corporate (including M&A), Hong Kong
- James Wong: Dispute Resolution: Litigation, Hong Kong
- Victor Tse: Intellectual Property, Hong Kong
- Gene Kwek: Intellectual Property, Singapore
Highlights for this edition include new firm rankings for Healthcare & Life Sciences; Foreign firms in China, and Asset Finance: Foreign Firms in Singapore.
Our firm rankings have improved in the following sections:
- Australia: IT & Telecoms
- China: Dispute Resolution: Foreign Firms
- China: Labour & Employment: Foreign firms
- Hong Kong: Dispute Resolution: International Arbitration
- India: Foreign Firms
To view the rankings in full please click here.
