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Offshore Law Firm Adds To Teams In Hong Kong, Jersey

Walkers, the offshore law firm, has added a number of senior lawyers to its offices in Hong Kong and Jersey, focusing on areas including insolvency and corporate recovery.
Guy Locke – currently global head of Walkers' Insolvency and Corporate Recovery Group – has been named head of Asia.
Locke specialises in corporate restructuring and contentious insolvency, as well as matters arising out of distressed investment vehicles.
Carol Hall, head of Walkers' Investment Funds Group in Hong Kong, has been named managing partner of the firm's Hong Kong office. A specialist in hedge funds and private equity funds, Hall has been based in Hong Kong since 1999. She will assume the role of managing partner from Hugh O'Loughlin, who will head up Walkers’ Jersey office in the summer as the firm continues to expand its Finance and Corporate Group in Europe.
Other appointments in Jersey include a move at Walkers' Finance and Corporate practice. Nigel Weston, a partner, joins from Mourant du Feu & Jeune. Weston will co-head Walkers' Finance and Corporate Group in Jersey alongside partner Alexandra Corner, who is based in both Jersey and London.
Neil McDonald joins Walkers' Jersey office as an associate in the Finance and Corporate Group. McDonald joins from Slaughter and May in London.