DLA Piper has hired banking expert Trinh Hoang as a partner in Hong Kong from Linklaters, the office’s fourth new partner in the past 12 months.

With 18 years of experience, Hoang, who was a managing associate at Linklaters, focuses on restructuring debt facilities, structured finance, acquisition finance and corporate loans. Her clients include large financial institutions such as Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and Bank of America.

Hoang spent more than two years at Linklaters, having joined the firm in 2020. Previously, she worked for law firms Sidley Austin and Latham & Watkins, and in an in-house role at Goldman Sachs.

With this addition, the number of partners in DLA Piper’s Hong Kong office has risen to 27. They include projects partner Crystal Chen, who joined in May – also from Linklaters – and George Wu and Russell Wilkinson, who joined in December 2021 from Herbert Smith Freehills and the departing Baker Botts, respectively.