Linklaters, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Jones Day and Sidley Austin have emerged as the successful bidders for the second round of Singapore’s Qualifying Foreign Law Practice (QFLP) licences, seeing off competition from a raft of UK and international rivals.
The four global firms were among a list of 23 that applied for QFLPs in the period between 1 July and 31 August 2012, with other hopefuls including Berwin Leighton Paisner, DLA Piper, Ashurst, Olswang, Watson Farley & Williams and Stephenson Harwood, as well as US firms K&L Gates and Shearman & Sterling.
