Almost two months after Coudert Brothers threw the pieces of its far-flung empire up for grabs, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary appear to have come away with portions of its most prized Asia practices.

DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary says it’s taken perhaps three partners and two dozen fee earners in Coudert’s Beijing office, five lawyers in Shanghai and laid claim to the Tokyo and Singapore branches.