Weil, Gotshal & Manges has hired banking and finance partner Daniel Abercromby in Hong Kong from Kirkland & Ellis.

Abercromby focuses on leveraged and acquisition finance transactions, as well as related refinancing and restructuring matters, for private equity funds and their portfolio companies in China, India and southeast Asia. In 2017, he advised Bain Capital on a $1 billion investment in India’s Axis Bank Ltd. – one of the largest private equity investments ever in the Indian banking sector.