| Having opened offices in Frankfurt, Singapore and Dubai last year, K&L Gates LLP appears intent to continue its international expansion in 2010, recently opening two new offices in Tokyo and Moscow. The firm’s entry into the Japanese market boosts the total number of its offices in Asia to six – the firm first entered the Asia market with its 1996 launch of a Hong Kong office, followed by offices in Beijing, Taipei, Shanghai, and Singapore.
Corporate partners Takahiro Kawaguchi, Robert E. Melson, Jr and J. Ryan Dwyer, III – who have joined K&L Gates from Latham & Watkins LLP – will initially focus on corporate and international finance, mergers & acquisitions, banking, private equity, real estate acquisitions, licensing and distribution arrangements, and general corporate and employment law areas. The lawyers have experience advising on Japanese and international joint ventures and foreign direct investment both into and out of Japan. “With our new Tokyo and Moscow offices, we will enter nations and parts of the world that are strategically important to K&L Gates’ global clientele,” said Peter J. Kalis, K&L Gates chairman and global managing partner. “Japan is an important market for our global and regional Asia clients…. The addition of these partners, with their experience in Japanese and cross-border practice, enhances our growing footprint in Asia,” said David Tang, the firm’s managing partner for Asia. |
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