PwC has hired Rachel Eng, the deputy chair of Singaporean firm WongPartnership, to launch a new local law practice for the Big Four firm.

Eng will leave WongPartnership after 23 years to join the accounting firm’s legal arm at the end of August. She will join former Bird & Bird Singapore corporate partner Joanna Teng and form a new Singaporean law firm, displacing the auditor’s former member firm Camford Law.