金杜律师事务所近日迎来资本市场专家，前世达国际律师事务所北京合伙人孙凯律师以合伙人身份加盟其香港办公室。

孙律师在香港资本市场、并购及企业融资领域拥有超过十五年的从业经验，专注于为发行人和承销商处理证券相关交易，包括首次公开募股、后续股票发行和债券发行等项目。

金杜全球主席王俊峰表示：“我们非常高兴迎来孙凯加入金杜香港办公室。孙凯在资本市场领域的深厚专业知识和丰富经验，无疑将为金杜香港股权资本市场团队注入全新活力。”

金杜香港联席管理合伙人周浩和范凯敦表示：“欢迎孙凯加入金杜香港，孙律师的加入是我们增长战略的重要一步，体现了我们为中国及亚太地区客户提供坚实法律保障的使命与目标。”

世达自去年10月关闭上海办公室并调整中国业务之后便迎来了一波人才的流失。其北京办公室合伙人徐一林律师便在今年1月加入科律律师事务所。官网显示，目前该所北京办公室还有8位专业人士。

伴随着孙律师的加盟，金杜香港办公室目前共有66名专业人士。

Skadden loses another in Beijing as ECM partner joins KWM Hong Kong

King & Wood Mallesons has expanded its equity capital markets practice with hire of Sun Kai as a partner in Hong Kong from the Beijing office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.

Sun becomes the second Skadden partner to leave its Beijing office since it closed its Shanghai office in October last year. Sun’s departure follows Xu Yilin, who joined Cooley in January.

With more than 15 years of experience in capital markets and mergers and acquisitions, Sun represents both issuers and underwriters in initial public offerings, follow-on equity offerings, and debt offerings.

"We are thrilled to welcome Kai Sun to the KWM Hong Kong partnership and to the Hong Kong office. Kai’s extensive capital markets expertise is a tremendous addition to the already deep bench that is KWM Hong Kong’s ECM team,” said Wang Junfeng, KWM global chairman, in a statement.

Added Hao Zhou and Hayden Flinn, co-chief executives of KWM Hong Kong: "We are delighted to have Kai join the KWM Hong Kong partnership. Kai’s appointment is a further development of KWM's growth strategy, and our key goal of supporting clients across the region and beyond."

According to Skadden's website, it currently has eight legal professionals in Beijing. Meanwhile, with Sun’s hire, KWM now has 66 professionals in Hong Kong.