Weil Gotshal & Manges. (Photo: Jason Doiy/ALM)Weil Lures Finance Partner From Kirkland in Hong Kong
Daniel Abercromby is Weil's first Hong Kong partner hire in four years.
October 15, 2019 at 01:23 PM
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Weil, Gotshal & Manges has hired banking and finance partner Daniel Abercromby in Hong Kong from Kirkland & Ellis.
Abercromby focuses on leveraged and acquisition finance transactions, as well as related refinancing and restructuring matters, for private equity funds and their portfolio companies in China, India and southeast Asia. In 2017, he advised Bain Capital on a $1 billion investment in India's Axis Bank Ltd. – one of the largest private equity investments ever in the Indian banking sector.
Abercromby leaves Kirkland after almost five years with the firm. Previously, he was an associate at Allen & Overy for seven years in London and Singapore. Before that, he practised in Auckland at Mayne Wetherell.
The move is Weil's first partner hire in Hong Kong since 2015, when private equity specialist Tim Gardner joined from Latham & Watkins. The New York-based firm has a small office in Hong Kong with 14 lawyers focusing on private equity and mergers and acquisitions. The other partners are Henry Ong, Soo-Jin Shim and Chris Welty; Gardner serves as office head. In addition, Charles Ching, a Shanghai-based corporate partner and China practice head, also spends time in Hong Kong as well as in Beijing.
Last year, fund partners John Fadely and Albert Cho left Weil to join Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. In late 2017, Weil's former Hong Kong-based Asia managing partner Akiko Mikumo, retired from the partnership and left to become a fellow at Harvard University's prestigious Advanced Leadership Initiative programme; the Asia operations are now managed by Gardner and Ching.
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