Recently, Withers announced that Laurence Ho will return as a partner and join the firm's Hong Kong office with a three-person team.

Laurence Ho specialises in the areas of international tax, trust and estate planning, with a focus on serving US-based individuals, multinational families, family offices, estates and trusts. After practising at Withers for nearly a decade, Ho moved to Stephenson Harwood in 2017 and joined Loeb & Loeb in 2020 as a member of the private client practice group.

Founded in 1896 and headquartered in London, England, Withers has an extensive global network of 17 offices in the United States, Europe and Asia. In Asia, the firm has three offices in Hong Kong, Tokyo and Singapore, with the Hong Kong office opening in 2008.