Hogan Lovells has hired Laurence Davidson, who is rejoining the firm in Hong Kong as a corporate partner from an in-house role at Chinese conglomerate HNA Group, where he was a senior counsel.

Davidson specialises in public and private mergers and acquisitions, as well as private equity transactions in the infrastructure, natural resources and real estate sectors in the Asia-Pacific region. He will start at Hogan Lovells on November 11.

He leaves HNA after about two years with the company, during which he handled transactions in the aviation, logistics and real estate sectors.