Eversheds Sutherland has reinforced its banking and finance practice with the addition of Tom Van Hoof as partner in Hong Kong. An experienced finance lawyer, Van Hoof joins from DLA Piper. He began his legal career at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, qualifying in Brussels and New York. After moving to Allen & Overy in 2012, he then joined DLA Piper’s Hong Kong office in 2017. Van Hoof has extensive experience advising financial institutions, investors and corporate borrowers on debt finance and commercial transactions, including leveraged and acquisition finance, project finance, asset finance, pre-IPO and margin finance, real estate finance and general banking transactions. He advises clients across a number of sectors, including financial services, energy, maritime, logistics, infrastructure, manufacturing and hotels &...

  Tilleke & Gibbins has added Long Gia Nguyen as a partner within its Corporate & Commercial group. Based in the firm’s Ho Chi Minh City office, Nguyen is a highly accomplished attorney who brings extensive experience and expertise in real estate, hospitality and M&A transactions, positioning the firm as a leading force in Southeast Asia’s legal market. He has nearly two decades of experience as both in-house and external counsel, leading numerous cross-border real estate projects across the Asia Pacific region, including property acquisitions, leasing and development, land use planning, financing and more. Prior to joining the firm, Nguyen spent more than 14 years with one of the top international law firms in Vietnam. He holds an LLB degree from Hanoi Law University, and earned an LLM from the Graduate School of Law of Transnational Law and Business University in Korea. He is licensed to practice law in Vietnam, and holds a certificate of...

Charles Russell Speechlys has added Stephen Chan as a partner within the firm’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution department. Joining the firm’s Hong Kong office from Ince & Co Hong Kong, Chan specialises in complex and high value commercial litigation and arbitration. He has over 15 years of experience handling multi-jurisdictional fraud and asset tracing involving freezing, gagging and other urgent interim injunctive measures, which have particular synergies with the growing cryptocurrency and virtual asset area. He is also well-versed advising on technology-related disputes, shareholder and company disputes, and contentious employment matters. Many of his cases have an international element, and Chan has a particular tie to the US, Europe and China. In addition, he has strong capabilities in international arbitration work arising from a broad range of commercial disputes across a range of sectors, including private wealth, financial services and technology. He has experience in most of the world’s leading arbitral seats (including London, Hong Kong and Singapore) and under the rules of key arbitral institutions (including HKIAC, SIAC, ICC and UNCITRAL rules). Chan is a member of the Law Society of Hong Kong’s Arbitration Committee. He is admitted to practice in Hong Kong, and is a barrister and solicitor in New Zealand. He speaks fluent English, Cantonese and...

Stephenson Harwood has further strengthened its global private capital and funds sector group with the arrival of Jay Tai and Ren Yong, formerly partners at Proskauer Rose in Asia. Joining the firm in Singapore, Tai is a private equity and M&A lawyer whose practice is focused on representing global and regional investors in private equity transactions, M&A, fundraisings, financings, restructurings and liquidity events across the Asia Pacific and the Middle East. His specific focus in recent years has been advising on secondary transactions in the Asian private equity space for a number of blue-chip clients. Yong, who joins the firm in Hong Kong, is an investment funds lawyer whose practice focuses on the representation of fund sponsors, investors and managers in the formation of investment funds in...

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co has added Sarika Raichur and Shruti Khanijow as partners in the general corporate and dispute resolution-litigation practices, respectively, in Chennai. Raichur specialises in cross border and domestic transactions and advisory, like M&A, joint ventures, private equity and venture capital, venture debt, divestitures, business transfers, asset sales and fund structuring, as well as setting up business or operations in India, shareholders’ and investment disputes and a wide range of general corporate, commercial, employment and regulatory issues. With close to 18 years of experience primarily in Corporate/M&A, PE&VC and JV, she has previously worked as a partner at Luthra and Luthra Law Offices and Kochhar & Co, and as a senior consultant at Noerr. On the other hand, Khanijow is a commercial disputes lawyer with focus on international disputes, and has represented private parties and state entities in institutional (ICC, UNCITRAL, LCIA and SIAC) and ad hoc arbitrations in India, the MENA region, London, Paris, Singapore and Geneva. She is regularly involved in complex high-stake engineering and construction disputes, and has represented third-party funders in cross border high-stake arbitrations and insolvency financing. She is empanelled as Specialist Mediator with the Singapore International Mediation Centre, and is a steering committee member of the Young International Arbitration & Mediation Centre...