White & Case has hired former Broadfield group head of Asia dispute resolution and investigations practice Fergus Saurin, along with partner Grace Zhu, to join its Hong Kong office, strengthening the firm’s litigation and private capital capabilities across the Asia-Pacific region.
Saurin and Zhu joined Broadfield’s Hong Kong alliance firm Liu Patrick Ling & Co in July and November 2025, respectively. Prior to that, both had practised at Kirkland & Ellis.
Saurin joined Kirkland in July 2019, and was promoted to partner as well as Asia head of arbitration and co-head of litigation in October 2020. Earlier in his career, he trained and practised at Holman Fenwick Willan from 2009.
He advises private capital clients on matters including multijurisdictional litigation and international arbitration disputes, as well as crisis management, special situations, contentious restructurings and insolvencies.
Saurin’s litigation experience spans first-instance and appellate proceedings before courts in England, Hong Kong, the Chinese mainland, Singapore, New York, the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands. His arbitration practice covers proceedings under all major institutional rules and ad hoc arbitrations.
Zhu joined Kirkland in 2019 and was promoted to partner in October 2023. Previously, she trained and practised at Hogan Lovells from 2015.
She advises private equity investors, global asset managers and multinational corporations on high-stakes cross-border investigations, regulatory enforcement matters and complex commercial disputes. Her practice focuses on fraud, securities enforcement, anti-corruption and anti-bribery, anti-money laundering, sanctions, export controls, data privacy and national security issues.
She has represented clients responding to regulatory enquiries and investigations launched by the US Department of Justice, the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong and other major regulators across Asia.
Zhu also advises on shareholder and M&A disputes, directors’ duties, debt recovery, insolvency and liquidation and asset tracing matters, covering court proceedings and arbitrations across jurisdictions including Hong Kong, the Chinese mainland, the UK and the US.
UK-headquartered Broadfield opened its Hong Kong office in early 2025, marking its first branch in the Asia-Pacific region. Patrick Liu, founding partner of Liu Patrick Ling & Co, is also one of the founding partners of Broadfield’s Hong Kong office and serves on its executive committee.
