Hong Kong boutique Howse Williams Bowers (HWB) has hired a team of restructuring and insolvency lawyers from Ashurst, led by partner Bertie Mehigan.
Mehigans appointment continues a year of key partner hires for HWB, which has added Janet Lee from the Hong Kong governments Lands Department, Antony Yung from JP Morgan and Christopher Yu from Goodwin Procter since the April this year.
Mehigan, who moved to Ashursts Hong Kong office in 2014 along with two other partners from OMelveny & Myers Singapore office, had previous stints with White & Case and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in Singapore.
His departure comes just a month after Doo-Soon Choi left Ashursts Hong Kong office for Mayer Brown JSM.
Ashurst also lost four partners in London t…
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