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
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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.