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The international firms also poached from their rivals; Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP’s Beijing office welcomed Li Li from Debevoise & Plimpton’s Shanghai office; and corporate lawyers Thomas Man and Brad Herrold joined Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP in Beijing from Hogan Lovells International LLP. In Shanghai, Michael Chin joined Hogan Lovells International LLP] from [Dorsey & Whitney LLP.

Within Foreign firms, Debevoise & Plimpton is a third tier firm,

Although Li Li exited from Debevoise & Plimpton’s Shanghai office to Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP’s Beijing office, Drew Dutton joined in Hong Kong from the Paris office, and counsel Niping Wu joined the Shanghai branch from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP’s Beijing office. Recent representations include advising Prudential Financial in its strategic cooperation with Fosun Group to establish a $600m private equity fund. Thomas Britt III ‘has a client-friendly approach to managing transactions’.