Clifford Chance - one of the largest law firms in the world - has relocated three partners to the firm's regional headquarters in Hong Kong. Most importantly, it has moved Stephen Roith, the head of the firm's Asian capital markets practice, from Tokyo to Hong Kong. Roith has been in Tokyo since September 1999 and also worked in the firm's Hong Kong office during the 1980s.
His move reflects the growing importance of Hong Kong and Asia to the firm and the need to have world-class lawyers working on the increasingly complex capital markets transactions that are coming out of the region. We recognize the need for the management of the regional capital...
