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Freshfields

Asia-Pacific Guide 2024

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Firm Details

Senior Partner: Georgia Dawson

Managing Partners: Alan Mason, Rick van Aerssen and Rafique Bachour

Asia Managing Partner: Thomas Ng

Number of partners in Asia: 34

Number of lawyers in Asia: 200

Languages: Members of the firm speak over 60 languages, including English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Vietnamese, French, German, Hindi, Malay, Indonesian, Spanish and Tamil.

Firm Overview

Freshfields is a global law firm with a long-standing track record of successfully supporting the world’s leading national and multinational corporations, financial institutions and governments on groundbreaking and business-critical mandates. Freshfields’ 2,800-plus lawyers deliver results worldwide through its own offices and alongside leading local firms. Freshfields’ commitment, local and multi-national expertise and business know-how means Freshfields’ clients rely on the firm when it matters most.

Freshfields in Asia-Pacific

You will find Freshfields at the heart of Asia’s most complex deals and cutting-edge regulatory matters. From helping on the first strategic foreign investment in Vietnam to setting up the Tokyo AIM market, from engineering a complex public takeover in Hong Kong to restructuring China’s telecoms industry, to aiding pioneering investments in Myanmar to leading the largest IPO in southeast Asia, Freshfields is often involved in the region's most important and ground-breaking transactions. Freshfields help clients liaise with global antitrust and regulatory authorities, create innovative financing and banking structures, and navigate cross-border international arbitration, litigation and employment issues across the region.

Asia-Pacific | Freshfields

Main Areas of Practice

Antitrust, Competition & Trade:

Freshfields has unrivalled expertise in international, EU, US and national competition law matters. The firm advises major multinationals, financial institutions, governments and other clients on strategy, structuring and negotiations relating to all competition and related issues, including merger control and foreign investment clearances, abuse of dominance and cartel investigations, and follow-on and other antitrust litigation.

Contacts: Ninette Dodoo, Alastair Mordaunt, Kaori Yamada

Corporate/M&A:

Freshfields has many years’ experience helping clients make strategic investments and divestments into and out of Asia and are the ‘go to’ legal adviser for complex public and private M&A in the region. In the past nine years, Freshfields has advised on more cross-border M&A deals in Asia than any other law firm, consistently topping the Asia Pacific cross-border league tables.

Contacts: Robert Ashworth, Arun Balasubramanian, Joechen Ellrott, Edward Freeman, Tony Foster, Nigel Gleeson, Teresa Ko, Philip Li, Philip Morgan, Takeshi Nakao, Yuxin Shen, Sarah Su, Bui Thanh Tien, Alan Wang, Simon Weller.

Equity Capital Markets:

The firm is widely recognised as a ‘must have’ legal adviser for securities-related transactions throughout Asia and around the globe. In addition to its market-leading work on IPOs, Freshfields also maintains an active practice advising clients on rights issues, share placements, spin-off listings, secondary offerings and related compliance. The firm’s Asia-based lawyers are qualified to advise in respect of Hong Kong, English and New York law governed transactions.

Contacts: Arun Balasubramanian, Howie Farn, Grace Huang, Teresa Ko, Calvin Lai, Richard Wang, David Yi.

Dispute Resolution, including Arbitration:

Freshfields has helped clients manage some of the most high-profile and business critical disputes, multi-jurisdictional investigations, and politically sensitive international arbitrations in Asia in recent years. With expertise in Asia/US and Asia/EU contentious issues, its team has the experience to meet the increasingly international needs of clients in their regional disputes. The firm has acted on one of the highest-profile China-related arbitration to date; in the first-ever investment treaty arbitration brought by a Japanese investor; in one of the largest Asia investment treaty arbitrations; and in probably the largest-ever commercial dispute in Asia.

Contacts: John Choong, Nicholas Lingard, Tim Mak, Erin Miller Rankin and Joaquin Terceno.

Finance, Restructuring & Insolvency:

Freshfields finance team has a wealth of experience advising corporate clients and financial institutions on event driven financings, refinancings and corporate treasury matters across the credit spectrum. The firm advises on financing for strategic transactions, to support growth strategies and major project development, and also where debt restructuring is needed to adapt to challenging market conditions. Freshfields Asia-based lawyers are qualified to advise in respect of Hong Kong, English and New York law governed transactions, and where needed draw on the expertise of colleagues in other jurisdictions to achieve the best outcomes for its clients.

Contacts: Daniel French, Bing Guan, Thomas Ng, Richard Perks, Bui Thanh Tien.

Regulatory, Investigations & Compliance:

Freshfields is a market leader in proactively identifying risks arising from legislative changes and helping multinational businesses comply with their regulatory requirements. Its focus is on assisting clients that are subject to multiple regimes and expanding into new regimes. The team is experienced in strategic advisory, transactional, investigative and enforcement issues relating to areas including: Anti-Bribery & Corruption; Sanctions; Financial Regulation & Compliance; Whistle-Blower & White Collar Crime; Employment; Data Protection & Security.

Contacts: Richard Bird, Stephanie Chiu Tim Mak, Matthew O’Callaghan.

Ranked Offices

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UK - Head office
China
  • Hong Kong
    55 Floor, One Island East Taikoo Place, Quarry Bay , Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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Japan
  • Tokyo
    Akasaka Biz Tower 36F 5-3-1 Akasaka Minato-ku , Tokyo, Tokyo-to, Japan, 107-6336
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Singapore
  • Singapore
    10 Collyer Quay 42-01 Ocean Financial Centre , Singapore, Singapore Island, Singapore, 049315
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United Arab Emirates
  • Dubai
    ICD Brookfield Place, Level 13, DIFC , Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 506 569
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Vietnam
  • Hanoi
    Suite 1602 16th Floor Hanoi Central Office Building, 44B Ly Thuong Kiet Street, Hoan Kiem District , Hanoi, Ha Noi, Vietnam
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    Ho Chi Minh City
    1101-1103, Saigon Tower, 29 Le Duan Boulevard, District 1 , Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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Freshfields rankings

Asia-Pacific Guide 2024
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Asia-Pacific Region
Arbitration (International)
1 Department
Department
Arbitration (International)
2
Arbitration (International)
2
Band 2
Banking & Finance
1 Department
Department
Banking & Finance
3
Banking & Finance
3
Band 3
Capital Markets: Debt
1 Department
Department
Capital Markets: Debt
3
Capital Markets: Debt
3
Band 3
Capital Markets: Equity
1 Department
Department
Capital Markets: Equity
2
Capital Markets: Equity
2
Band 2
Corporate/M&A
1 Department
Department
Corporate/M&A
1
Corporate/M&A
1
Band 1
Corporate/M&A: Private Equity
1 Department
Department
Corporate/M&A: Private Equity
2
Corporate/M&A: Private Equity
2
Band 2
Energy & Natural Resources
1 Department
Department
Energy & Natural Resources
3
Energy & Natural Resources
3
Band 3
India
Corporate/M&A (International Firms)
1 Department
2 Ranked Lawyers
Department
Corporate/M&A (International Firms)
1
Corporate/M&A (International Firms)
1
Band 1
Lawyers
Arun Balasubramanian
Arun Balasubramanian
Singapore expertise based abroad
Piusha Bose
Piusha Bose
UK expertise based abroad
Dispute Resolution (International Firms)
1 Department
1 Ranked Lawyer
Department
Dispute Resolution (International Firms)
2
Dispute Resolution (International Firms)
2
Band 2
Lawyers
Rohit Bhat
Rohit Bhat
Singapore expertise based abroad
Indonesia
Corporate & Finance (International Firms)
1 Department
Department
Corporate & Finance (International Firms)
3
Corporate & Finance (International Firms)
3
Band 3
Corporate/M&A (International Firms)
2 Ranked Lawyers
Lawyers
Jon Bowden
Jon Bowden
Singapore expertise based abroad
Nigel Gleeson
Nigel Gleeson
Singapore expertise based abroad
Projects & Energy (International Firms)
1 Ranked Lawyer
Lawyers
Philip Morgan
Philip Morgan
Singapore expertise based abroad
Japan
Competition/Antitrust
1 Department
1 Ranked Lawyer
Department
Competition/Antitrust
3
Competition/Antitrust
3
Band 3
Lawyers
Kaori Yamada
2
Kaori Yamada
2
Band 2
Corporate/M&A: Domestic
1 Department
2 Ranked Lawyers
Department
Corporate/M&A: Domestic
3
Corporate/M&A: Domestic
3
Band 3
Lawyers
Takeshi Nakao
3
Takeshi Nakao
3
Band 3
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