An analysis of last year’s partner hires in Asia shows that the Big Four accounting firms continued to expand into legal services across the region and Chinese firms actively recruited lawyers from U.S. firms, trends that are likely to continue. 

The affiliated law firms of Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers hired 17 partners across Asia in 2019. That’s up from 11 in 2018, when the Big Four began their aggressive expansion into the region’s legal market.