When Ashurst announced last week that it was recruiting two Singapore-based partners and a counsel from O’Melveny & Myers, it was the latest in a series of departures from the Los Angeles-based firm’s office in the city-state.
Over the past nine months, O’Melveny has seen no fewer than 14 lawyers exit the Singapore office, including three of its five partners there. The departures leave the office with about eight lawyers, according to its website. (The firm declined to offer an official head count.) O’Melveny now has one of the smaller international law offices in a market where some of the largest global players include Magic Circle firm Allen & Overy (60 lawyers) and U.S. firms White & Case (36 lawyers), Latham & Watkins (33 lawyers) and Jones Day (26 lawyers).
