Restructuring and insolvency specialist Bertie Mehigan has left local Hong Kong firm Howse Williams Bowers, where he was a registered foreign lawyer for a year, to set up his own firm, Mehigan LLP.

Hong Kong boutique Howse Williams Bowers (HWB) has hired a team of restructuring and insolvency lawyers from Ashurst, led by partner Bertie Mehigan.

Ashurst has boosted its financial services regulatory practice with the hire of Ben Hammond from Slaughter and May as a partner in Hong Kong.

Ashurst has hired two partners and one counsel from O’Melveny & Myers in Singapore (OMM), and a senior consultant to boost the firm’s restructuring and special projects capability in Asia.