The latest moves in asset and wealth management from across Europe, Asia, and elsewhere in the world.

Hogan Lovells
International law firm Hogan Lovells has appointed Nick Williams, a prominent figure in Singapore’s legal field, as a partner in its business restructuring practice.

Williams is based in the Singapore office, where he works in the Asian city-state’s cross-border restructuring and insolvency market, representing banks, financial institutions, hedge funds, private equity investors, insolvency accounting firms and corporate creditors and debtors. He is also experienced in investigations, commercial disputes and international arbitration.

The Singapore office is the firm’s Southeast Asia hub, working with its other offices in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, and Jakarta.

Kobre & Kim
Kobre & Kim has added offshore disputes and insolvency lawyer Timothy Haynes as partner in Hong Kong. His addition follows the firm’s recent arrival of offshore lawyer, Ulrich Payne, in the Cayman Islands.

Haynes, who joins from Walkers where he led the insolvency and dispute resolution group, will build upon the firm’s offshore capabilities in Asia-Pacific, serving high net worth individuals and companies. He has experience both advising on and litigating high-value, cross-border management, shareholder, commercial insolvency and corporate restructuring disputes, often with a nexus to Hong Kong, the Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands.

In addition to being a Chartered Arbitrator, Haynes is an experienced advocate who has appeared in numerous cases before the first instance and appellate courts in Hong Kong and the Cayman Islands.