Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has launched a China practice by taking the rump of Coudert Brothers’ local branch, although highly-rated regional managing partner Jingzhou Tao is not included in the nine-partner team.
The San Francisco firm has hired Coudert partners out of its Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing branches, including a six-partner Hong Kong team headed my office chief Sook Young Yeu, and including Edward Fung, David Halperin, Martin Robinson, Neal Stender, Christopher Stephens and Adrian Yip.
