Leading international law firm Herbert Smith Freehills has promoted five Asia lawyers to counsel, as part of the firm's 36-counsel global promotion round.

These promotions follow the announcement of Singapore private capital specialists Victor Chiew and Salonika Kataria's promotion to partnership last week.

"This year's new counsel span our practices and regions, with talented individuals from China, Southeast Asia and North Asia," said Asia managing partner May Tai.

"These counsel and partner promotions from within, combined with 12 partner hires in the past 18 months, demonstrate our ongoing Asia expansion."

Our new Asia counsel from 1 May 2023 and their principal areas of practice are:

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OFFICE  

SPECIALISM

Francis Greenway          

Singapore

Disputes/International Arbitration and Commercial Litigation

Elisa Hayashi

Tokyo    

Corporate/Cross Border M&A and Joint Ventures

Simone Hui*                     

Hong Kong 

Disputes/Financial Services Regulatory      

Jessica Loy               

Singapore

Core Finance

Joel Rheuben                  

Tokyo

Cross-Border Competition Law

*Simone's title will be Senior Consultant to meet local regulations.

Key contacts

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Fatim Jumabhoy

Partner, Head of Employment & Workplace Investigations, Asia, Singapore

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Andrew Blacoe

Managing Partner, Tokyo Office, Tokyo


Media contact

For further information on this article please contact

Sally Greig

Head of Communications, Asia

Hong Kong

Vivian Huang

Communications Manager, China

Beijing

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