Offshore firm Maples and Calder has expanded its global dispute resolution and insolvency practice after hiring Nick Stern and Quentin Cregan as partners in its Hong Kong and the Cayman Islands offices, respectively.

Formerly a counsel at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Stern acts on multi-jurisdictional insolvency, restructuring-related and shareholder disputes and schemes of arrangement. 

Cregan, who was a barrister for nearly two decades in Australia and the United Kingdom, has expertise in commercial disputes related to matters pertaining to intellectual property, technology and contracts.

 

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