Hong Kong's legal community becoming internationalized

When it was announced earlier this month that Koo & Partners was to merge with the US firm of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker (Paul Hastings), eyebrows were raised. What were the ties that bound together a large US corporate law firm with a much smaller Hong Kong financial services practice? Both firms can answer this question with one word: China."The US is the world's largest economy and China is the future. Linking the two together means that there will be lots of busines…