英国所华盛国际律师事务所近日迎来资产及结构金融专家江乃森（Jonathan Silver）律师以合伙人身份加盟其香港办公室。加盟华盛前，他曾于2019至2021年担任迈普达律师事务所亚洲区航运团队主管兼合伙人。

江乃森律师在一般银行和金融事务、流动资金贷款、银团和双边贷款、结构性贸易和大宗商品融资等方面拥有超过18年的咨询经验，主要服务于银行、保荐人、借款人、租赁人、私募基金等客户。他尤其擅长船舶金融，包括船舶债务融资、船舶售后回租融资、船舶买卖及其他商业船舶合同有关的法律事务。江乃森律师还被任命为香港公证员。

执业初期，江乃森律师在2004至2012年执业于诺顿罗氏国际律师事务所，此后，他以合伙人身份加盟Howse Williams Bowers执业超过一年，于2014年回到诺顿罗氏，担任合伙人并领导北亚地区航运业务直至2019年。

江乃森律师加盟后，华盛香港办公室共有八位合伙人，其中包括去年1月从英国博凯立律师事务所香港办公室加入的周健安（Jackson Chow）律师。

WFW expands HK finance practice with partner from Maples

London-headquartered Watson Farley & Williams (WFW) has hired Jonathan Silver, an expert in assets and structured finance, as a partner in its Hong Kong office from offshore law firm Maples Group.

A former head of the North Asia shipping practice at Norton Rose Fulbright, Silver has more than 18 years of experience advising on general banking and finance matters, working capital loans, syndicated and bilateral lending, secured lending, structured trade and commodity finance, debt capital markets and alternative finance. He also advises on the debt financing of ships, ship sale-and-leaseback lease finance, sale and purchase of ships, and other commercial shipping contracts. 

Silver joined Maples in 2019 after nearly 15 years at Norton Rose across two stints, the stints being split by a year spent as a partner in 2013-14 at independent Hong Kong law firm Howse Williams (then known as Howse Williams Bowers).

With Silver joining, WFW now has eight partners in Hong Kong. The office’s last lateral partner hire was Jackson Chow, who joined in January 2021 from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner.

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