Source: Legal Week                          Date: 31 March, 2011

DLA Piper is set to enter the Mongolian legal market after securing an alliance with a local firm, C&G Partners. The two-partner Mongolian firm will become a DLA Piper ‘focus firm', with DLA targeting local work in sectors including mining, capital markets, banking, project finance, hospitality and leisure and infrastructure.

DLA Piper Asia-Pacific managing director Alastair Da Costa says the relationship with C&G will enable the firm to have a presence in an emerging economy where our clients are doing increasing volumes of business. "Mongolia is attracting considerable investment from G20 economies such as Russia, China, Korea, Japan and Australia and as such it is an important market for us to engage with," he said.

Hogan Lovells last year became the first transatlantic firm to enter Mongolia after agreeing a formal alliance with Ulaanbaatar firm, GTs Advocates.