Law Firm Announces New Partners in Beijing Office's Life Sciences and Corporate Practices, Hong Kong Office's Corporate and Investment Funds, Advisers and Derivatives Practices, and Sydney Office's Securities Practice
Hong Kong (BUSINESS WIRE) - Four lawyers in the Asia Pacific offices of Sidley Austin are among the 34 lawyers elevated to partnership in the firm. Effective July 1, the firm will have 681 partners in offices in the United States, Europe, Asia and Australia. The new partners will be Chen Yang, Life Sciences and Corporate; Jason Tzu-cheng Kuo, Corporate; Scott Dennis Peterman, Investment Funds, Advisers and Derivatives; and Bruce Dailey, Securities.
"Welcoming this new group of talented lawyers to our partnership is a great privilege," said Thomas A. Cole, chair of the firm's Executive Committee.
"These lawyers embody our firm ideals and our commitment to excellence, integrity, diversity and collegiality."
"It is tremendously exciting to be able to add four new partners to our Asia Pacific team," added Thomas W. Albrecht, a member of the firm's Management Committee and Executive Committee and the partner responsible for international operations.
"Our platform in Asia has long been one of the most experienced and diverse in Asia and these new partners will only strengthen our practices in life sciences, corporate, securities and investment funds."
Chen Yang, 39, resident in Beijing, heads the firm's China Life Sciences group and focuses her practice on regulatory, corporate and commercial law, including intellectual property and antitrust aspects of life sciences matters. Over the lastten years, she has been advising international companies on their investment projects and acquisition efforts in various Chinese industries, as well as providing them with regulatory advice in areas such as life sciences, intellectual property, employment, tax and real property.
Ms. Yang, currently a counsel, received her LL.B degree from Peking University, with the honor of "Best Graduate of the Year," and an LL.M from the University of Georgia. She is a native Chinese speaker and is fluent in English.
Jason Tzu-cheng Kuo, 41, resident in Hong Kong, will be a partner in the Corporate practice. He has extensive experience in corporate securities and general corporate matters. He has worked on a broad range of securities transactions, including IPOs, debt offerings, private placements and pre-IPO venture capital investments, involving issuers from the P.R.C., Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia, India, Korea and Australia.
Mr Kuo, currently a counsel*, received his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and his B.Sc. from the University of Minnesota. Mr Kuo is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and has a working knowledge of Japanese.
Scott Dennis Peterman, 56, resident in Hong Kong, will be a partner in the Investment Funds, Advisers and Derivatives practice. He advises on alternative investments, fund formation and private equity transactions, including leveraged buyouts, venture capital and entrepreneurial transactions, as well as the regulatory issues implicated by these matters. His private equity clients include many of the world's leading buyout firms, large Japanese banking institutions, the world's largest sovereign wealth funds and Asia's prominent asset managers.
Mr Peterman, currently a counsel* in Hong Kong and a Gaikokuho Jimu Bengoshi in the firm's Tokyo office, received his J.D., cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center, a Ph.D. from Stanford University, M.A. from Vanderbilt University, M.A. from Ohio State University and his B.A., with honors, from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. Mr Peterman speaks Mandarin Chinese and Japanese.
Bruce Dailey, 37, resident in Sydney, represents issuers, investors and underwriters in private placement debt and equity transactions, syndicated bank lending transactions, secured transactions and complex structured financial transactions of all types. Mr Dailey has represented and has relationships with a broad range of financial services clients, including many of the major United States insurance companies and investment banks and collateral/asset management firms in the United States and abroad.
Mr Dailey, currently a counsel, received his J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School and his B.A., with high honors, from University of California, Berkeley.
Sidley also named the following to partnership in its other offices: Brussels - Ken Daly and Kristina Nordlander; Chicago - Bobbi O. Anderson, Mark Borrelli, Kara L. McCall, Robert P. O'Keefe, Patricia M. Petrowski, John T. Schaff, Elizabeth M. Schubert, Amanda M. Todd, Dennis M. Twomey, Scott R. Williams and Ami N. Wynne; Frankfurt - Werner Geielmeier; Geneva -
Nicolas J.S. Lockhart; London - David Howe; Los Angeles - Joshua E. Anderson, Stephen D. Blevit, Alycia A. Degen and Mitchell Poole; New York - Jonathan P. Brose, Nicholas H. De Baun, Bindu Donovan, Stuart S. Koonce, Todd L. Krause, Michael Madigan and Xiaowen Qiu; San Francisco - Theodore W. Chandler; Washington, D.C. - Karl F. Kaufmann and Robert D. Keeling.
Sidley has been advising clients in the Asia Pacific region for over 20 years. With more than 120 lawyers in the region, the firm handles corporate, finance, commercial, banking, securities, property, litigation, regulatory and industry-specific matters.
Sidley has clients based in virtually every major location in the Asia Pacific region including mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Australia, Korea, Taiwan, India, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines.
Sidley's Asia Pacific team has extensive experience in SEC-registered offerings as well as listings on the New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ and the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong (Main Board and GEM board). Sidley was recently ranked as one of the top 10 legal advisers on China's IPOs, based on the sum of all funds raised by China Law & Practice.
Sidley Austin LLP is one of the world's largest full-service law firms, with more than 1800 lawyers practicing in 16 U.S. and international cities, including Beijing, Brussels, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hong Kong, London, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo. Every year since 2003, Sidley has been named to Legal Business' Global Elite, their designation for "the 15 finest law firms in the world."
BTI, a Boston-based consulting and research firm, has named Sidley to their Client Service Hall of Fame as one of only two law firms to rank in the Client Service Top 10 for seven years in a row.
*Foreign Legal Consultants
For purposes of the New York State Bar rules, this press release may be considered Attorney Advertising and the headquarters of the firm are Sidley Austin LLP 787 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10019, 212.839.5300 and Sidley Austin LLP One South Dearborn, Chicago, IL 60603, 312.853.7000. Prior results described herein do not guarantee a similar outcome.
Sidley Austin Janet Zagorin, +1-212-839-8797 Director of Practice Development jzagorin@sidley.com or
Rubenstein Associates Peter Pochna, +1-212-843-8007 ppochna@rubenstein.com
Hong Kong (BUSINESS WIRE) - Four lawyers in the Asia Pacific offices of Sidley Austin are among the 34 lawyers elevated to partnership in the firm. Effective July 1, the firm will have 681 partners in offices in the United States, Europe, Asia and Australia. The new partners will be Chen Yang, Life Sciences and Corporate; Jason Tzu-cheng Kuo, Corporate; Scott Dennis Peterman, Investment Funds, Advisers and Derivatives; and Bruce Dailey, Securities.
"Welcoming this new group of talented lawyers to our partnership is a great privilege," said Thomas A. Cole, chair of the firm's Executive Committee.
"These lawyers embody our firm ideals and our commitment to excellence, integrity, diversity and collegiality."
"It is tremendously exciting to be able to add four new partners to our Asia Pacific team," added Thomas W. Albrecht, a member of the firm's Management Committee and Executive Committee and the partner responsible for international operations.
"Our platform in Asia has long been one of the most experienced and diverse in Asia and these new partners will only strengthen our practices in life sciences, corporate, securities and investment funds."
Chen Yang, 39, resident in Beijing, heads the firm's China Life Sciences group and focuses her practice on regulatory, corporate and commercial law, including intellectual property and antitrust aspects of life sciences matters. Over the lastten years, she has been advising international companies on their investment projects and acquisition efforts in various Chinese industries, as well as providing them with regulatory advice in areas such as life sciences, intellectual property, employment, tax and real property.
Ms. Yang, currently a counsel, received her LL.B degree from Peking University, with the honor of "Best Graduate of the Year," and an LL.M from the University of Georgia. She is a native Chinese speaker and is fluent in English.
Jason Tzu-cheng Kuo, 41, resident in Hong Kong, will be a partner in the Corporate practice. He has extensive experience in corporate securities and general corporate matters. He has worked on a broad range of securities transactions, including IPOs, debt offerings, private placements and pre-IPO venture capital investments, involving issuers from the P.R.C., Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia, India, Korea and Australia.
Mr Kuo, currently a counsel*, received his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and his B.Sc. from the University of Minnesota. Mr Kuo is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and has a working knowledge of Japanese.
Scott Dennis Peterman, 56, resident in Hong Kong, will be a partner in the Investment Funds, Advisers and Derivatives practice. He advises on alternative investments, fund formation and private equity transactions, including leveraged buyouts, venture capital and entrepreneurial transactions, as well as the regulatory issues implicated by these matters. His private equity clients include many of the world's leading buyout firms, large Japanese banking institutions, the world's largest sovereign wealth funds and Asia's prominent asset managers.
Mr Peterman, currently a counsel* in Hong Kong and a Gaikokuho Jimu Bengoshi in the firm's Tokyo office, received his J.D., cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center, a Ph.D. from Stanford University, M.A. from Vanderbilt University, M.A. from Ohio State University and his B.A., with honors, from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. Mr Peterman speaks Mandarin Chinese and Japanese.
Bruce Dailey, 37, resident in Sydney, represents issuers, investors and underwriters in private placement debt and equity transactions, syndicated bank lending transactions, secured transactions and complex structured financial transactions of all types. Mr Dailey has represented and has relationships with a broad range of financial services clients, including many of the major United States insurance companies and investment banks and collateral/asset management firms in the United States and abroad.
Mr Dailey, currently a counsel, received his J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School and his B.A., with high honors, from University of California, Berkeley.
Sidley also named the following to partnership in its other offices: Brussels - Ken Daly and Kristina Nordlander; Chicago - Bobbi O. Anderson, Mark Borrelli, Kara L. McCall, Robert P. O'Keefe, Patricia M. Petrowski, John T. Schaff, Elizabeth M. Schubert, Amanda M. Todd, Dennis M. Twomey, Scott R. Williams and Ami N. Wynne; Frankfurt - Werner Geielmeier; Geneva -
Nicolas J.S. Lockhart; London - David Howe; Los Angeles - Joshua E. Anderson, Stephen D. Blevit, Alycia A. Degen and Mitchell Poole; New York - Jonathan P. Brose, Nicholas H. De Baun, Bindu Donovan, Stuart S. Koonce, Todd L. Krause, Michael Madigan and Xiaowen Qiu; San Francisco - Theodore W. Chandler; Washington, D.C. - Karl F. Kaufmann and Robert D. Keeling.
Sidley has been advising clients in the Asia Pacific region for over 20 years. With more than 120 lawyers in the region, the firm handles corporate, finance, commercial, banking, securities, property, litigation, regulatory and industry-specific matters.
Sidley has clients based in virtually every major location in the Asia Pacific region including mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Australia, Korea, Taiwan, India, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines.
Sidley's Asia Pacific team has extensive experience in SEC-registered offerings as well as listings on the New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ and the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong (Main Board and GEM board). Sidley was recently ranked as one of the top 10 legal advisers on China's IPOs, based on the sum of all funds raised by China Law & Practice.
Sidley Austin LLP is one of the world's largest full-service law firms, with more than 1800 lawyers practicing in 16 U.S. and international cities, including Beijing, Brussels, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hong Kong, London, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo. Every year since 2003, Sidley has been named to Legal Business' Global Elite, their designation for "the 15 finest law firms in the world."
BTI, a Boston-based consulting and research firm, has named Sidley to their Client Service Hall of Fame as one of only two law firms to rank in the Client Service Top 10 for seven years in a row.
*Foreign Legal Consultants
For purposes of the New York State Bar rules, this press release may be considered Attorney Advertising and the headquarters of the firm are Sidley Austin LLP 787 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10019, 212.839.5300 and Sidley Austin LLP One South Dearborn, Chicago, IL 60603, 312.853.7000. Prior results described herein do not guarantee a similar outcome.
Sidley Austin Janet Zagorin, +1-212-839-8797 Director of Practice Development jzagorin@sidley.com or
Rubenstein Associates Peter Pochna, +1-212-843-8007 ppochna@rubenstein.com
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