Richard Thorp and Harriet Unger, formerly with Maples and Calder, will lead the Asian practice.
Both
are authorised by the Law Society of Hong Kong to practise Cayman
Islands law in the firm’s new Hong Kong office and are also admitted in
the British Virgin Islands.
Thorp is a securities and funds lawyer
who has acted on a broad range of funds and general corporate matters,
including the establishment of private equity and hedge funds and
advising the directors and administrators when complex issues arose.
He
joined Maples and Calder in London in 1998 and was transferred to
Maples’ Hong Kong office in 2001 where he was made partner in 2004.
Unger
is a structured finance specialist whose expertise covers all areas of
capital markets transactions. She also has extensive experience of
banking and corporate transactions and has been based in Asia for almost
ten years.
Prior to her work at Maples and Calder, Unger worked
for Simmons & Simmons in its London, Hong Kong and Tokyo offices and
has been seconded to two major European investment banks in London.
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