The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2025 Ranks Mayer Brown In 23 Practice Areas And Recognizes 14 Lawyers

Singapore – The 2025 edition of The Legal 500 Asia Pacific ranked Mayer Brown in 23 practice areas across seven jurisdictions. Of these rankings, two are in the top tier:

• Projects: Foreign Firms, Singapore
• Foreign Desks, Myanmar, for the ninth consecutive year

The guide recognized 14 Mayer Brown lawyers in a total of 19 individual rankings, including four lawyers in the elite "Hall of Fame" and seven lawyers in the "Leading Individuals" categories.

Hall of Fame:

• Gabriela Kennedy – Intellectual Property, Hong Kong; TMT, Hong Kong
• Jason Elder – Capital Markets: Debt, Hong Kong
• Richard Stock – Asset Finance: Aviation Finance, Hong Kong
• Rupert Burrows – Projects and Energy: International Firms and Joint Ventures, Japan

Leading Individuals:

• Ashley Wong – Asset Finance: Aviation Finance, Hong Kong
• Thomas Kollar – Capital Market: Debt, Hong Kong
• Gabriela Kennedy – Data Protection and Cyber Security, Hong Kong
• Doos Choi – Banking and Finance: Foreign Firms, Singapore
• Nick Kouvaritakis – Energy: Foreign Firms, Singapore
• Kay-Jannes Wegner – International Arbitration, Singapore
• Benjamin Thompson – Projects: Foreign Firms, Singapore; Foreign Desks, Myanmar

Four Mayer Brown lawyers have also been listed in the "Next Generation" category for their practice area:

• Evelyn Lok – Asset Finance: Aviation Finance, Hong Kong
• Amita Haylock – Intellectual Property, Hong Kong; TMT, Hong Kong; TMT: Foreign Firms, Singapore
• Janelene Chen – Banking and Finance: Foreign Firms, Singapore
• Sean Prior – Energy: Foreign Firms, Singapore

The following is a complete list of practice categories in which Mayer Brown is ranked in the 2025 edition of Legal 500 Asia Pacific:

Asia-Pacific Region

• Asia Pacific: Regional International Arbitration

China

• Banking and Finance: Foreign Firms
• Intellectual Property: Foreign Firms
• Restructuring and Insolvency: Foreign Firms
• TMT: Foreign Firms

Hong Kong

• Asset Finance: Aviation Finance
• Banking and Finance
• Capital Market: Debt
• Data Protection and Cyber Security
• Intellectual Property
• Structured Finance and Securitisation
• TMT

Japan

• Banking and Finance: International firms and joint ventures
• Corporate and M&A: International firms and joint ventures
• Projects and Energy: International firms and joint ventures

Myanmar

• Foreign Desks: Myanmar

Singapore

• Banking and Finance: Foreign Firms
• Corporate and M&A: Foreign Firms
• Energy: Foreign Firms
• International Arbitration
• Projects: Foreign Firms
• TMT: Foreign Firms

South Korea

• International Arbitration