CMS Holborn Asia, the Singapore foreign law alliance (FLA) of CMS, has hired Daniel Tan as the head of its banking and finance practice. Tan was earlier a counsel at Clifford Chance.

Tan joins the firm a few weeks after CMS hired Babita Ambekar as a partner in Singapore. Ambekar was earlier a partner and head of the India practice at DWF.

Tan, who had been with Clifford Chance since 2006, advises on transactional and regulatory matters across multiple areas of finance, including leveraged and general syndicated finance, asset finance, trade finance and project finance.

Following his hire, CMS now has 11 partners in Singapore.

 

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