When CHRISTOPHER STEPHENS took a position in the Hong Kong office of now-defunct Coudert Brothers in 1996, he and his wife thought their move abroad would be temporary. "We didn’t hang curtains for the first four years," says Stephens, who has been in Asia ever since. The recently appointed general counsel of Manila’s Asian Development Bank (ADB) now calls the continent home. "Our children were born here, the best legal work in the world is here, it’s a fascinating and invigorating place to live," says Stephens, "and we’ve put down roots."
Stephens comes to the multilateral financial institution from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, where he was a partner from 2005 through the end of last year. His practice focused on project development and finance, mergers and acquisitions, and private equity transactions across the region. Stephens also previously worked in the region for Breed, Abbott & Morgan, which became Whitman Breed Abbott & Morgan after the firm’s merger with Whitman & Ransom in 1993.
