London’s Herbert Smith is launching a Hong Kong restructuring practice, with a partner recruited from Bermuda’s Appleby Global.
Michael Barker will focus on restructuring and insolvency work.
At Appleby, Barker headed the Hong Kong bank and structured finance team. He was formerly an insolvency partner in the Hong Kong office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.
Barker specializes in advising creditors, debtors and investors on non-contentious restructuring and insolvency issues.
Herbert Smith was founded in the City of London in 1882 by Norman Herbert Smith, and today has 230 partners and 1,200 fee-earners. It is widely considered to be the UK’s leading litigation practice.
Posted by Erik Even
on April 8, 2009. Filed under Home,Law Firm News,Legal News,World News.
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Anonymous
April 8, 2009 at 11:39 am
hmm herbert smith is very famous person who deals with provding timely advise to creditors, debtors and investors. Its very good that he is going to launch a hong kong restructuring practice. He is having very vast experiance in the field of finances.