U.K. shipping specialist Hill Dickinson has hired a new partner from Paul Hastings to expand its small capital markets team in Hong Kong.

YK Chan joins the office’s equity capital markets team, which now has two partners. He will co-lead the team along with corporate partner Kurt Lau, who became the firm’s first partner specializing in initial public offerings in Hong Kong when he joined from Eversheds Sutherland in September last year.