Debevoise & Plimpton is to offer local law advice in Hong Kong from next month, after two decades of operating as an international legal practice.

The US firm, which opened in the city in 1994 and has since provided only New York and English law counsel, will begin practising Hong Kong law as of October 1, following in the footsteps of US rivals Kirkland & Ellis, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Davis Polk & Wardwell.