Latham & Watkins has advised Warburg Pincus on its joint venture with Lendlease’s life science business in Asia. The joint venture will be used to launch a specialist real estate platform capitalizing on the growing life sciences sector in Asia Pacific.

The Latham team was led by Hong Kong / Singapore corporate partner Amy Beckingham and Hong Kong corporate partner Richard Watkins, with associates I-Ming Tan, Heidi Lui, and Gladys Ma. Advice was also provided on IP, licensing, and commercial aspects by Hong Kong associates Benjamin Han, Anthony Liu, and Bianca Lee; on tax matters by London partner Aoife McCabe and associate Joshua Atkinson; on compliance matters by Beijing partner Hui Xu and associate Yan Bao, with Washington, D.C. associate Elizabeth Annis; on antitrust matters by Frankfurt partner Sebastian Hauser and associate Victoria Pfaff; on Singapore law matters by Singapore partner Farhana Sharmeen with associates Gen Huong Tan and Zoe Wang; on Japanese law matters by Tokyo partner Hiroaki Takagi and associate Takatomo Terasaki; and on PRC law matters by Beijing associate Jason Zhao and Hong Kong associate Echo Xu.