DLA Piper Assigns M&A Expert Fang Xin To Develop Business

Mergers and acquisitions expert Fang Xin joins the Hong Kong office of DLA Piper as a partner in its corporate practice.

Fang, who previously practised at Mayer Brown, specialises in advising on cross-border M&A, joint ventures and private equity transactions across the Asia-Pacific region.

DLA Piper said the addition of Fang will help promote the development of the firm’s Asian M&A business in the long term.

Mergers and acquisitions are one of DLA Piper’s main businesses as the firm said it had completed more than 7,000 M&A deals between 2010 and 2021, which had been the most globally.

DLA Piper is a multinational law firm with offices in over 40 countries throughout the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.In 2021, it had a total revenue of US$3.47 billion, an average profit per equity partner of US$2.5 million, and was the third largest law firm in the United States as measured by revenue.

DLA Piper was formed in January 2005 by a merger between three law firms: San Diego-based Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich LLP, Baltimore-based Piper Rudnick LLP and United Kingdom-based DLA LLP. It is composed of two partnerships, the United Kingdom-based DLA Piper International LLP and the United States-based DLA Piper LLP (US). The two partnerships share a single global board and are structured as a Swiss Verein.