PricewaterhouseCoopers has hired Rachel Eng, the deputy chair of the Singaporean firm WongPartnership, to help launch a new local law practice for the auditor.

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, after the auditor’s association with former member firm Camford Law Corp ended in June.