Ashurst has appointed a new board member following the announcement that Paris finance partner Laurent Mabilat has stepped down after two three-year terms on the oversight body.

Singapore managing partner Matthew Bubb, who specialises in banking and project finance, replaced Mabilat on the board at the beginning of May.

Bubb has experience of advising on major infrastructure projects across a raft of sectors and has been managing partner of the Singapore office since 2006, He will now be replaced in the management role by fellow finance partner Carl Dunton.

Ashurst's management board has ten members including senior partner Charlie Geffen, newly-appointed managing partner James Collis, finance director Nigel Morland, as well as partners Cristina Calvo, Anthony Clare, Reinhard Eyring, Mary Padbury, Ben Tidswell and Logan Mair.

Separately, the firm has appointed a new Hong Kong managing partner following the expansion of Asia managing partner Geoffrey Green's role in the wake of Ashurst's combination with legacy Blake Dawson.

Corporate partner Robert Ogilvy Watson has taken on the management role, a term which also took effect on 1 May.

The news comes several months after the firm replaced real estate funds partner David Evans on the board. Evans, who left to launch a London office for US firm Goodwin Procter, was replaced by Ashurst's first-ever female board member, Cristina Calvo, who is based in Spain.