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Why the Ease of Moving Back to the US Coming from Asian Markets Vary from Time to Time
[00:00:00] What are the options out there after US big law in a market like Hong Kong, Singapore, China?
That's a great question. So again, I place people all the time from working in Hong Kong, Singapore, and China back in the US, but it's a question of how much experience they have. I can think of one guy recently that I worked with that was coming from, China. And he wanted to go back to Ohio and he got 10 or 11 interviews and 7 or 8 offers and not a big market like Akron or something.
It wasn't like, Cincinnati or Cleveland. The point is, it depends on the market you're going to. It depends on your experience and what you're doing, but if you were a capital markets attorney right now in Hong Kong, Singapore, China, you could probably fairly easily relocate back to the US even with 10 or more years of experience.
The market's very good. It's not as good as it is right now, but you could, and you could probably even relocate to New York. But it depends on the markets. It depends on how the status of the market and what you've done.
There are a lot of opportunities if you're in the right practice area.
Now, if you were doing international arbitration in Singapore right now, you'd [00:01:00] probably have a pretty fricking hard time getting back to the US. But, if you're doing corporate or securities or something, you would probably very easily be able to come back without much problem. That's just because the economy was slow. You'd be in trouble because the firms are obligated in going to hire local people first.
I've worked with partners from, places like Freshfields and that have been partners in foreign offices. And I wanted to come back to the U S and I didn't have any business. And for them, that was very difficult. But probably wouldn't be now, but I'm saying maybe a year or two ago or three years ago, it was hard, but now it's not.
