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will further strengthen and complement the firm’s offering in the UAE and regional market. With over 20 years of experience, Reid is a transactional lawyer with an established and diverse corporate and commercial practice, focusing primarily on natural resources, transport and logistics, financial services and technology. He regularly advises his international and regional client base on a variety of complex corporate matters, commercial contracts, projects, restructurings and reorganisations. He is also well-versed in assisting clients on matters of general company law and corporate governance. A recognised practitioner in the UAE, Reid also has strong international relations, having advised on transactions across numerous jurisdictions throughout his career, spending various periods working in London, Paris, Shanghai, Moscow and Stockholm.

King & Spalding has added experienced trial lawyer and former barrister Richard Sharpe as a partner in its Special Matters and Government Investigations practice, based in the firm’s Singapore office. Sharpe assists multinational clients with a variety of criminal, civil fraud and transactions matters, including anti-bribery and corruption, anti-money laundering, international sanctions, cybercrime, other cross-border investigations and strategic transactions assessment. He also has significant experience in complex civil litigation and arbitrations arising from fraud and other misconduct, and advises global companies on investment-related international risk and the design and implementation of compliance programs. Sharpe joins from

Kirkland & Ellis, where he was a partner in the Government & Internal Investigations Practice Group in the Hong Kong office. He is a Hong Kong-qualified solicitor and an England and Wales barrister. He received his undergraduate master’s degree in jurisprudence from the University of Oxford, and his Bar Vocational Qualification from the Inns of Court School of Law.

Ashurst has added Lance Jiang as a partner in the restructuring, insolvency and special situations practice, based in its Hong Kong office, as part of the team’s expansion plan to capture the rapidly growing opportunities and client demands in Asia. With two decades of experience in the region, Jiang advises on complex cross-border restructurings and insolvencies with a Chinese nexus. With a strong focus on funds and financial institutions across greater China, he has represented a broad range of stakeholders on special situation matters involving NPLs, restructurings, bankruptcies, insolvencies and reorganisations. He has also acted on a wide spectrum of cross-border structured corporate finance transactions, including acquisition financings, equity margin financings, pre-IPO and leveraged financings, real estate financings and other event-driven financings. Prior to joining the firm, Jiang practised at international law firms in Hong Kong, New York and Beijing. He also has extensive experience working as in-house counsel at leading financial institutions in Shanghai and Hong Kong.