Following partnership voting in December last year, the combination of Hogan & Hartson and Lovells – now Hogan Lovells – took effect this week on 1 May 2010. Since that time, the news of three former Hogan & Hartson managing partners in Asia leaving the firm has come to light.
Gordon Ng, the former managing partner of Hogan & Hartson’s Hong Kong office, has joined O’Melveny & Myers as a partner in the firm’s corporate finance/capital markets practice. Ng, who will continue to practice in Hong Kong, represents both companies and banks in Hong Kong listings and other financing matters, regulatory and compliance matters, and M&A transactions. He has built-up a strong reputation over the past 17 years as a result of guiding clients through sophisticated corporate and financing transactions in Hong Kong and China. A native of Hong Kong, Ng is admitted as a Solicitor of the High Court of Hong Kong, as well as in England and Wales and the District of Columbia.
Meanwhile, Roger Peng, the former managing partner of Hogan & Hartson’s Beijing office, has elected to join Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP as a partner in that firm’s Beijing office. Peng’s practice focuses on complex M&A, private equity, venture capital and commercial transactions, with a particular focus on the telecommunications, media and technology industries. Paul, Hastings views the appointment as a significant development in the expansion of its M&A and private equity capabilities in the Greater China region.
The former managing partner of Hogan & Hartson’s Shanghai office, Arthur Mok, has also reportedly joined Ropes & Gray as part of the US firm’s expansion in China. According to reports, Mok is set to join the firm’s life sciences, M&A and private equity practices in China. Although initially to be based in Washington, it is anticipated that Mok will launch Ropes & Gray’s Shanghai office once approval to open the office is forthcoming from the Chinese government.
