At a time when many global law firms are still grappling with their Asian market strategy, the Asia practice of the law firm CMS has tripled in size in just over 15 months.

The extraordinary growth was helped in part by the addition of an office in Singapore that was gained through the firm’s three-way merger with Nabarro and Olswang in the U.K. But it also came about because CMS’s Hong Kong office, opened just over a year ago, deliberately tapped into the strength and unique offerings of its German arm.