Davis Polk & Wardwell has made a major double partner hire from Clifford Chance (CC) to launch a litigation practice in Hong Kong.

CC's top-ranked Asia-Pacific litigation and dispute resolution head Martin Rogers and partner James Wadham are set to join Davis Polk's eight partner Hong Kong office, currently focused on capital markets and corporate matters.

Rogers – who like Wadham is English and Hong Kong law qualified – has spent more than 22 years in Asia advising working on complex regulatory enforcement and white collar crime cases. At CC, he also served as the firm's Asia-Pacific co-head of financial services regulation. He became a partner at the firm in 2002.