Singapore corporate boutique BTPLaw has hired Lynn Ariele Soh and Leeza Lee as partners. Soh was most recently a director at Eng & Co, the Singapore member firm of PwC Legal, while Lee was a managing associate at Linklaters’ Hong Kong office.
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The year 2022 could not have panned out more differently for the two Asian hubs. Hong Kong, which aligned itself with China’s Zero COVID policy until quite recently, has seen its economy slow and professionals head for the exit; however, its fundamentals remain strong, and the city is known for nothing if not its resilience. And while Singapore might have gained ground in the process – and attracted a flurry of law firms -the growth of its legal industry could be constrained by its innate drawbacks.