K&L Gates has added Eugene Yeung as a partner to the firm’s finance practice in the firm’s Hong Kong office. He joins from Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman. Qualified in Hong Kong, Australia, New York, and England and Wales, Yeung has a versatile practice, focusing on aviation finance and restructuring and insolvency in Asia. He regularly acts for financial lenders, aircraft owners, airlines, and ultra-high net worth individuals on a broad range of regional and local commercial transactions within the aviation sector, including aviation finance, restructuring, bankruptcy and insolvency, and investments and general corporate advisory matters.
White & Case has expanded its global capital markets practice and India country group with the addition of Rahul Guptan as a partner in Singapore. Guptan advises Indian and international companies, as well as investment banks and private equity firms, on transactions involving equity and debt capital markets, M&A, private equity and regulatory matters. He joins from Clifford Chance, where he was a partner and co-head of the Global India Group. He is an experienced and well known capital markets lawyer, who has advised on a number of ‘market first’ capital markets offerings by Indian issuers. He has strong, longstanding relationships with key stakeholders in India, Singapore and Hong Kong, and has a deep understanding of the Indian market.