HFW has continued to strengthen its leading global aerospace practice with the hire of senior partner Peter Coles, one of the market’s top aviation regulatory and disputes experts. Coles joined on May 15, 2023 from Clyde & Co, where he headed the firm’s APAC aviation practice. He previously spent more than eight years as an aerospace partner at HFW. Coles has more than 30 years’ experience advising on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious aviation issues, including regulatory, employment, insurance, commercial and transactional, contingency planning and emergency response, investigations and prosecutions, multi-jurisdictional claims and disputes, enforcement, insolvency and bankruptcy proceedings, parting out and end-of-life. He acts for major international airlines, operators, MROs, business and private aviation companies, and other industry clients. Coles is dual-qualified in England and Hong Kong, and is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical...

HFW has expanded its Australian Employment practice with the hire of partner Simon Billing, who is recognised as one of the leading specialist industrial relations, safety and employment law solicitors in Perth. Billing has over 30 years of employee relations experience, both as a legal practitioner in private practice and employee relations consultant for the Australian Resources & Energy Group. In addition to advising clients in the firm’s core sectors, particularly mining, oil and gas, shipping and maritime, engineering and construction, he also acts for clients in the hospitality, health, education and telecommunication sectors. Billing brings with him a team that includes a specialist workplace...

Carey Olsen has welcomed expert litigator Tim Haynes, who has joined the firm as a partner in the dispute resolution and litigation team in the Hong Kong SAR office. Haynes has over 20 years’ experience representing a wide range of Asia Pacific-based clients in all aspects of commercial dispute resolution under the laws of Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands. He advises on high value, cross-border management, shareholder, commercial, insolvency and corporate restructuring disputes, often with a connection to China and Hong Kong. Haynes is the former head of the Insolvency and Dispute Resolution Group at Walkers in Hong Kong. Immediately prior to joining the firm, he was a partner at Kobre & Kim (Hong Kong), a multi-jurisdictional dispute resolution and investigations practice. Haynes was admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales (non-practising), and called to the bar in Hong Kong in 2003 (non-practising), and was admitted as an attorney in the Cayman Islands in 2009. He has been a practising solicitor of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court since...

Squire Patton Boggs has added Lian Yok Tan as a partner. She joins from K&L Gates, where she was global co-head of the energy, infrastructure and resources practice. With almost 30 years’ experience in the energy and infrastructure industries, Tan has advised on a wide range of projects, including renewable, hydrogen, LNG, power, oil and gas, infrastructure, mining and technology matters. Acting for government-linked corporations, financial institutions and private companies, she has significant experience advising on project development and construction, as well as financing, including project, structured, trade and asset financing and derivatives. Tan was admitted to the New York bar in 2000, and as a solicitor in England and Wales in 2002.  She is an advocate and solicitor in Singapore, and was also admitted in Malaysia. Tan is a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators (SIArb), and has completed the Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration (SCMA)’s Maritime Arbitrator Accreditation...

Allen & Overy has strengthened its Asia Pacific corporate practice with the addition of Kenny Kwan and Caryn Ng, leading equity capital markets and public M&A lawyers, as partners in Singapore. They both join from Baker McKenzie in Singapore. Kwan rejoins A&O, having worked at the firm previously from 2009 to 2017. He specialises in M&A, capital markets transactions, funds and general corporate matters under Singapore law. Kwan also has US securities law experience, acting as both issuers’ and underwriters’ counsel on US-registered offerings, Rule 144A/Regulation S offerings and ADR offerings. On the other hand, Ng specialises in equity capital markets and corporate finance, with a crossover interest into the private equity space. She has represented issuers and underwriters in numerous securities listings in...