White & Case's big China hire

Global law firm White & Case's mainland operations have been boosted by the hire of Li Xiaoming as a Beijing-based partner. Li moves to the firm from the Beijing practice of King & Wood, where for the past five years he has been senior partner. Prior to this he also gained US experience with Debevoise & Plimpton. Upon joining White & Case's Beijing practice, Li becomes one of only a handful of Chinese lawyers to join a major international law firm as a lateral partn…