International law firm Ashurst announces the appointment of Evan Lam as a partner in the financial services regulatory group, based in Singapore. Evan joins from Allen & Gledhill LLP with more than 10 years of experience in financial regulation and OTC derivatives.
He advises financial institutions on a full spectrum of Singapore financial regulations including licensing, conduct of business, insolvency and resolution. His clients include leading global financial institutions such as banks, broker-dealers, clearing houses, exchanges, fund managers, insurers and payment service providers, as well as FinTech players such as crowd-funding platforms, blockchain exchanges and virtual asset service providers. Evan also advises his clients on OTC derivatives, and has acted as opinion counsel to industry bodies and financial institutions in connection to their netting and collateral opinions relating to master agreements and credit support documents. He is recognised by Chambers & Partners for his work on derivatives and securitisation.
Evan also holds a concurrent appointment of director at Ashurst ADTLaw, Ashurst’s formal law alliance with Singapore firm ADTLaw LLC since May.
Jonathan Gordon, global co-head of financial regulatory team, comments, “We are excited to be welcoming Evan to Ashurst. This is an important development for our regulatory practice, as we continue to provide top quality service to our financial institution clients in an increasingly demanding regulatory environment. Evan is an exceptional practitioner and is well connected in the Singapore financial market. His in-depth knowledge and understanding of the local market will complement our existing offerings and enhance our position as a leading advisor to global financial institutions on complex regulatory matters.”
Jini Lee, regional head of Asia, adds, “Singapore has a mature and vibrant financial market. Ashurst remains committed to Asia and Evan’s skills and experience adds to our growing bench strength of Asian partners. I am confident that Evan will be a valuable addition in our client offering in Asia.”
Ashurst has a team of financial regulatory specialists based in the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Luxembourg, Asia, Australia and the US. The team specialises in advising global financial institutions on their global regulatory requirements, providing commercial, practical and innovative solutions to complex regulatory issues. The team has built strong relationship which enable the team to advise its on the regulatory horizon from a cross-jurisdictional perspective. The firm also has extensive experience advising leading institutions on a broad spectrum of derivatives and structured product transactions including equity derivatives, credit derivatives, commodity derivatives, interest rate and FX derivatives, structured products (including retail structured products), repos and securities lending.
The appointment of Evan is the firm’s third partner hire in Asia in the last four months. Danny Tan joined the Singapore office in April to lead the firm’s Asia-Pacific investment funds practice; Melody He joined the Hong Kong office in March to strengthen the firm’s capital markets offerings.
Source: www.ashurst.com
