Morgan, Lewis & Bockius has established a foothold in Shanghai, the firm’s sixth office in Asia, bringing on 23 lawyers and 12 staff members from one of Dentons’ Shanghai offices.

The new office is led by five global corporate transactional partners, Mitch Dudek, Todd Liao, Alex Wang, Eddie Hsu and Cindy Pan. Along with 30 other lawyers and staff, they make up the entirety of Dentons’ legacy office in Shanghai from before the firm’s combination with Dacheng. As a result of that landmark union, Dentons still has more than 600 lawyers in Shanghai.