Withers has hired banking and finance special counsel Xanthe Lok to its London office. Ms Lok joins the firm from Gowling WLG, where she was a senior member of the banking team, advising on corporate and real estate finance transactions, usually with a cross-border element.

Ms Lok focuses on advising borrowers, including public and private companies, trustees and private individuals, on new corporate facilities, re-financings, restructurings and ancillary facilities in a broad range of industry sectors and on real estate finance transactions (both investment and development) in relation to commercial and high-end residential proper...