King & Wood Mallesons has hired banking and finance partner Katherine Ke, who was previously Shanghai counsel at Clifford Chance, to help the firm capture cross-border asset finance work as Hong Kong develops into an international hub for finance and aviation.*

Ke, who will be based in Hong Kong, specialises in cross-border financing transactions, including syndicated loans, project finance, structured finance, trade finance and receivables finance, as well as asset finance and the aviation sector.