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This improvement displays the completely different strategic horizons of our corporations. We thank the Australian agency for the years of teamwork and partnership. We sincerely recognize the long-term assist and belief proven by our purchasers. We are going to proceed to place purchasers first whereas striving for excellence in all the things we do. We stay dedicated to our worldwide technique and can proceed to develop our geographic protection via each natural development and collaboration with different main corporations globally. King & Wooden’s Hong Kong workplace, the most important legislation agency in Hong Kong by variety of legal professionals, will proceed to tackle a strategic position on this effort. -WJ
We thank the companions and colleagues of KWM China for his or her professionalism, collegiality and friendship over the previous 14 years. Mallesons is a trusted and revered model with practically two centuries of authorized excellence and 50 years of worldwide expertise and relationships. We are going to proceed to construct on this proud legacy as we grow to be the one high tier impartial agency working from Australia with the pliability to collaborate extra broadly with international elite corporations to satisfy the wants of our purchasers and our individuals right here, throughout the area and across the globe. -RL
— Statements issued by King & Wooden Mallesons leaders Wang Junfeng, International Chairman, and Renae Lattey, Chief Government Accomplice, Australia, in regards to the decision to split up and revert again to being separate corporations, as of March 31, 2026. King & Wooden and Mallesons merged in 2012, and now they’ve agreed to formally separate. King & Wooden will management the agency’s workplaces in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, and the U.S. A former associate on the agency stated the separate will finish “a decade and a half of strategic drift” for the agency.
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