Simmons & Simmons has hired finance expert Jay Lee from Standard Chartered Bank as a partner at its Hong Kong office.

At Standard Chartered, Lee was head of the legal debt capital markets department for China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.

Qualified as a solicitor in Hong Kong and an attorney-at-law in New York, he has previously worked at Citigroup, Shin & Kim and Skadden.

“Jay will be focusing on developing our debt capital markets practice in China, with an emphasis on our market leading RMB bonds practice and other deals such as G-3 bonds, medium-term note programmes, equity linked products and local currency bonds,” said Jonathan Hammond, head of the financial institutions practice at Simmons & Simmons, in a statement.

Kanishk Verghese is North Asia journalist at ALB. Follow us on Twitter: @ALB_Magazine.

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