{"id":161701,"date":"2026-08-27T20:58:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T04:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/27\/freshfields-asia-suffers-another-blow-as-latham-lures-hong-kong-dealmakers-grace-huang-and-edward-freeman\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T20:58:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T04:58:59","slug":"freshfields-asia-suffers-another-blow-as-latham-lures-hong-kong-dealmakers-grace-huang-and-edward-freeman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/27\/freshfields-asia-suffers-another-blow-as-latham-lures-hong-kong-dealmakers-grace-huang-and-edward-freeman\/","title":{"rendered":"Freshfields Asia Suffers Another Blow as Latham Lures Hong Kong Dealmakers Grace Huang and Edward Freeman"},"content":{"rendered":"

The hires give Latham heavyweight equity capital markets, private equity and M&A capabilities as Hong Kong’s deal market rebounds. It also deepens a run of significant partner losses for Freshfields across Asia.<\/p>\n

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The hires give Latham heavyweight equity capital markets, private equity and M&A capabilities as Hong Kong’s deal market rebounds. It also deepens a run of significant partner losses for Freshfields across Asia.<\/p>\n

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The hires give Latham heavyweight equity capital markets, private equity and M&A capabilities as Hong Kong’s deal market rebounds. It also deepens a run of significant partner losses for Freshfields across Asia. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The hires give Latham heavyweight equity capital markets, private equity and M&A capabilities as Hong Kong’s deal market rebounds. It also deepens […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":161702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/legal-news-IVkqjh.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}