Eversheds has appointed Kingsley Ong as partner in its Hong Kong banking and finance team. Kingsley will be responsible for spearheading the firm's structured finance and derivatives group.

Kingsley has over ten years of experience at both Mayer Brown and Clifford Chance as a structured finance and derivatives lawyer. In this time, he has helped set up securitisations and derivative products, as well as unwinding complex securitisation structures and close out of derivatives, repo and securities lending contracts.