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Leading international law firm Herbert Smith Freehills and its associate firms have promoted 11 new senior associates, effective 1 July 2023.

The newly promoted senior associates are drawn from offices and practices across the firm's Asia network.

Of the 11 new senior associates, two have been promoted at Hiswara Bunjamin & Tandjung (HBT), the firm's associate firm in Jakarta, and one at Kewei Law Firm, the firm's joint operation partner in Shanghai.

In addition, telecommunications and competition law specialist Randitya Adiguna has been promoted to become the first Of Counsel at Hiswara Bunjamin & Tandjung, a new role for the Indonesian legal market leader.

The new senior associates are:

Name

Office/Firm

Practice

Specialty

Paskalia Deviani Ekaputri

Jakarta (HBT)

Corporate

Energy and Infrastructure

Brian Ge

Beijing

Corporate

Capital Markets

Trevor Ho

Hong Kong

Disputes

Litigation

Sean Ji

Shanghai (Kewei)

Corporate

Capital Markets

Hui Qi Lim

Singapore

Corporate

M&A and Energy and Infrastructure

Marcus Lyon

Tokyo

Corporate

Energy

Giovanna Nicky R

Jakarta (HBT)

Finance

Finance 

Jarry Tay

Kuala Lumpur

Corporate

M&A

David Webb*

Hong Kong

Disputes

Intellectual Property 

Steven Wenham

Hong Kong

Disputes

Investigations and Tax Disputes

Chengdong Xing

Shanghai

Disputes

International Arbitration  

"Congratulations to all our new senior associates, whose promotions reflect the talent that we are proud to nurture in this region," said Asia managing partner May Tai.

"With so many of our offices and practices represented in this year's promotion round, it signals our commitment to, and ambition across, Asia."

 

  1. Asia promotions form part of 106 senior associate promotions announced by the firm in Australia, the UK, EMEA and the US today. .
  2. These promotions follow the April announcements of Singapore private capital specialists Victor Chiew and Salonika Kataria's promotion to partnership and of the promotion of five Asia lawyers to counsel at Herbert Smith Freehills.
  3. *David Webb will relocate to the firm's Hong Kong office from 1 August 2023.

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Sally Greig

Head of Communications, Asia

Hong Kong

Mainland China May Tai