Linklaters today announces that Gavin Lewis is to join the firm as a partner in the firm’s litigation practice and will be based in Hong Kong. Gavin will join from Herbert Smith Freehills.
Gavin Lewis is widely recognised as one of the top disputes lawyers in Greater China and the wider Asia region. His appointment enhances the firm’s standing as the leading contentious regulatory practice in Asia.
Gavin joins a Litigation team led by three partners in Linklaters’ Hong Kong: Marc Harvey, Jelita Pandjaitan and Melvin Sng. He is ranked first tier by Chambers directory and became a partner at Herbert Smith in 2002. In 2006 he joined UBS as managing director of Litigation & Regulatory Inquiries before rejoining Herbert Smith in 2008.
Marc Harvey, global head of Linklaters’ Litigation practice, said:
“Gavin is a very highly regarded litigation practitioner. He increases the senior capability of the team and will provide valuable support for clients in respect of their contentious issues. Gavin is well known to many at Linklaters and we look forward to working with him as we continue to expand our global litigation practice.”
Linklaters’ investment strategy is based on clients’ needs and market opportunity. Gavin Lewis is the latest of a number of high-profile partners to join Linklaters in recent months, including David Kidd (restructuring and insolvency, Hong Kong), Bertrand Sénéchal (capital markets, Paris), Martyn Hopper and Nikunj Kiri (financial regulation, London), Wilhelm Haarmann (corporate, Frankfurt), Clara Ingen-Housz (anti-trust, Hong Kong), Jasper Howard and David Brockway (tax, Washington D.C.), Simon Pritchard (anti-trust, London) and William Kirschner (corporate, Singapore).
