Ashurst has hired a new partner, Robert Child, for its restructuring, insolvency and special situations practice in Singapore.

Child joins Ashurst from Clifford Chance, where he was most recently Singapore-based counsel. He advises corporate debtors, syndicated lenders, bondholders, distressed investor funds, agents and trustees on multi-jurisdictional restructuring and insolvencies across Asia and Europe. He had previously advised on the restructurings of commodity trader Noble Group, Mongolian Mining Corporation and India's Jindal Steel & Power.