DLA Piper has added Jake Robson as a partner in its Singapore office, continuing the firm’s run of senior lateral hires across the region this year.
Robson joins from Greenberg Traurig, where he spent more than two years as co-managing shareholder and head of the firm’s South and Southeast Asia M&A practice. His move follows a well-travelled path through the region’s top international firms: before Greenberg Traurig, he was a partner at King & Wood Mallesons, and earlier still held partner roles at Morrison & Foerster and Norton Rose Fulbright.
A Cross-Border Corporate Practice
Robson’s work centres on advising strategic and private capital clients on complex, multi-jurisdictional transactions across South and Southeast Asia. His practice covers mergers and acquisitions, venture capital investment and financial services deals, with a concentration in technology, telecommunications, digital infrastructure, fintech and insurance. Those sectors have driven much of the region’s recent deal activity. His transaction history includes large-scale investments, infrastructure projects and multi-jurisdictional M&A mandates.
Firm Leadership on the Hire
DLA Piper’s Asia regional managing partner, Satpal Gobindpuri, said the appointment addresses rising client demand for sophisticated cross-border advice in the region, pointing to Robson’s experience across M&A, private capital and strategic investment work in the firm’s target growth sectors. Jon Kenworthy, global co-chair of DLA Piper’s corporate group, added that Robson’s background in high-growth sectors strengthens the firm’s ability to support clients navigating transformation across Asia.
Gobindpuri also signalled that the Robson hire is not a one-off, noting that Asia remains a core growth market and that the firm intends to keep investing in talent there to meet evolving client needs.
Part of a Broader Asia Build-Out
Robson’s arrival lands the same year DLA Piper made a high-profile capital markets play in Hong Kong, recruiting Sherlyn Lau, previously of Sidley Austin, as head of capital markets and corporate finance for Asia-Pacific, along with a 12-lawyer team. Taken together, the two moves point to a firm actively reinforcing its regional corporate and capital markets bench at a moment when Singapore has cemented its role as DLA Piper’s strategic hub for Asia-Pacific dealmaking.
Jake Robson joins DLA Piper.
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