Mayer Brown LLP

Asia Managing Partner: Terence Tung, Senior Partner

Number of partners: 80

Number of lawyers: 230

Languages: Cantonese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Malay, Mandarin, Shanghainese, Spanish, Thai, Vietnamese, Russia

Firm Overview:

Mayer Brown is a leading international law firm positioned to represent the world’s major corporations, funds and financial institutions in their most important and complex transactions and disputes.

OUR CLIENT SERVICE PRINCIPLES

• Delivering the best legal advice and service
• Leveraging our deep commercial instincts to serve as our clients’ strategic partners and trusted advisors
• Building diverse teams of lawyers from our market-leading practices to help achieve our clients’ goals
• Solving our clients’ most complex problems with creative and innovative ideas
• Collaborating across offices to deliver the best of our knowledge wherever in the world it’s needed
• Using technology to develop new ways to deliver timely and efficient client service

Main Areas of Practice:

Antitrust & Competition: Antitrust filings and regulatory clearances, antitrust advice associated with global transactions, legal compliance, programmes policy development and monitoring, anti-competitive conduct investigations.

Asset Finance:

Aviation, land transport, shipping, telecommunications and utilities.

Banking & Finance:

Capital markets transactions, trade finance, commercial paper, debt and equity issues, bank security, loans and syndication.

Construction & Engineering:

Drafting agreements, dispute resolution, rating and valuation.

Corporate & Securities:

Joint ventures and mergers, capital markets transactions, takeovers, management buyouts, restructuring and organisations.

Cybersecurity & Data Privacy:

Incident preparation and breach responses; litigating cutting-edge data privacy and cybersecurity issues; strategic counselling and corporate governance; vendor and supply chain management, contracting, and data transfers; regulatory and compliance; policy and advocacy.

Employment & Benefits:

Legal obligations of employers and employees, unit trusts, mutual funds, provident funds and retirement schemes.

Financial Services Regulatory & Enforcement:

Compliance, licensing and regulations in financial services.

Insurance:

Business interruption, contractors all risks, directors and officers’ liability, professional indemnity.

Intellectual Property:

Registration and protection of patents, trademarks, trade names and designs; anti-counterfeiting, litigation, opposition and rectification proceedings.

Litigation & Dispute Resolution:

Administrative law and judicial review, securities litigation, commercial litigation, electronic discovery, international arbitration, medical malpractice, anti-bribery and corruption, internal and regulatory investigations.

Projects & Infrastructure:

Financing in wide variety of sectors: power, oil, gas, renewables, mining and infrastructure.

Private Equity, Funds & Investment Management:

Full-service offering for entire life cycle of a fund – including fund formation & investment management, private equity, private equity real estate, fund finance and regulatory enforcement.

Real Estate Markets:

Development, finance and acquisition of commercial, industrial, hotel, residential and mixed-use real estate development.

Restructuring:

Restructuring and rescheduling of debts and advising on workouts, receiverships, liquidations and bankruptcies.

Structured Finance/Securitisation:

Derivatives, CDOs, securities and corporate finance, funds, financial institution regulatory compliance, bankruptcy and restructuring, tax.

Supply Chain & Distribution:

Contracts for suppliers and distributors, supply chain finance, international trade compliance, risk assessment and planning, preventative measures, and internal investigations and litigation defense, tax.

Tax:

Transactions, consulting and planning.

Technology Transactions:

Data rights, use, privacy and protection strategies; digital services; outsourcing; and software development, licensing and integration.

TMT:

Technology outsourcing, data privacy, media regulatory, domain names, IT, M&A, e-commerce.