Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has hired Linklaters’ counsel Howard Lam to join the firm as partner.
Lam, who has worked on both European and Asian finance transactions, brings considerable expertise to his new role. He has particular experience in banking, cross-border debt restructuring, insolvency and project finance lending.
Between 1997 and 2001, Lam worked as a trainee solicitor, and then as an associate at Deacons’ Hong Kong office. He then joined Allen & Overy in Hong Kong as an associate, before transferring to the firm’s London practice to work as a senior associate in banking in 2006. Lam returned to the SAR in 2008 as managing associate in banking and projects at Linklaters, before being promoted to counsel in 2009.
Lam is admitted to legal practice in England and Wales, and Hong Kong.ALB
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