Ashurst has welcomed back energy specialist Jon Ornolfsson as a partner in Singapore from Herbert Smith Freehills, and also announced that arbitration partner Ronnie King will be moving there from London.

King’s arrival coincides with fellow disputes partner Ben Giaretta relocating back to London after seven years in Singapore.

Ornolfsson trained and worked in Ashurst's London and Milan offices between 2003 and 2007. He has advised energy companies, and his experience with Herbert Smith Freehills includes periods of client secondments to the legal teams of INPEX Corporation in Tokyo and BP in Dubai.

With experience in cross-border energy and infrastructure matters, Ornolfsson focuses in particular on M&A and project development in the oil & gas (including LNG), power and petrochemical sectors.

Meanwhile, King, a partner at Ashurst since 1994, has experience of handling disputes for multinational corporates in ndustries including energy, power and telecommunications. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

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