The list of of former Ince & Co employees joining other maritime law firms keeps getting longer, with Hill Dickinson announcing the hire of 10 of them in one fell swoop in Hong Kong.
The group includes Ince’s veteran senior partner and corporate lawyer David Beaves, as well as asset finance partners Janice Lee and Gary Wong.
Five unidentified “fee earners” and two support staff go with them, and they will all join Hill Dickinson by mid-December.
“This latest move in our Hong Kong office represents a bold step forward for our expanding global marine practice,” said Tony Goldsmith, firm partner and head of its Marine Business Group.
The new personnel will work under Hill Dickinson’s Hong Kong office head Damien Laracy, complementing existing capacity for marine, international arbitration, insolvency and dispute resolution.
“This versatile team is well known and highly regarded in the Hong Kong and Mainland Chinese markets, and they also have deep regional connections,” Laracy said.
International maritime and corporate law firms have been feasting for months on failing Ince and its successor Axios Ince, which was shut down last month by the UK Solicitors Regulation Authority.
TradeWinds has reported about a stream of exits and defections from the former legal powerhouse.
Several were picked up by Stephenson Harwood, which announced last month the addition of eight former Ince lawyers led by veteran partner Paul Ho in Shanghai.
At about the same time, CMS expanded its shipping and insurance practice in Hong Kong with former Ince hand and master mariner Richard Oakley.
Earlier in November, London shipping law firm Campbell Johnston Clark took in a separate trio of former Ince lawyers under dispute resolution specialist Chris Kidd.
