Simmons & Simmons has added corporate partner Michael Chin to its office in Hong Kong.

Chin joins from Hogan Lovells, where he was a partner based in Shanghai. A mergers and acquisitions specialist, Chin has advised on cross-border transactions related to China. In 2012, he represented U.K.-based biotechnology company Abcam plc. on a $170 million acquisition of San Francisco-based Chinese antibody research and production company Epitomics International Inc.