The latest senior moves in the Asia-Pacific wealth management sector.

BBVA
BBVA, the Spain-based banking and financial group, has announced that it is setting up an equity trading and sales hub in Hong Kong. The hub will be a local extension of the global product capabilities of BBVA in the manufacturing of structured investment products for private banks and asset managers in Hong Kong and Singapore, both through traditional and digital channels.

The group has appointed Stephen Sun as head of sales, global equities Asia. Sun has worked in the financial industry for more than 20 years. He is joining BBVA from DBS Private Bank, where he was an investment consultant. Prior to that, Sun held sales positions at Barclays, Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan.

Sun reports to Eric Michl, head of equities, Asia and to Carlos Gil, global head of equity sales.

Carey Olsen
Carey Olsen has added to its dispute resolution and litigation offering in Hong Kong by appointing senior associate Kimberley Leng.

Specialising in cross-border restructuring and insolvency as well as commercial dispute resolution in both the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands, Leng has particular experience in dealing with applications for the appointment of 'soft touch' or 'light touch' provisional liquidators and offshore commercial litigation, having acted in a range of fraud, breaches of directors' duties, shareholder disputes, and minority dissent proceedings.

Prior to joining Carey Olsen, Leng's legal career began in the corporate restructuring workout practice group of one of Singapore's leading firms, Drew and Napier LLC, and most recently she practised as a dispute resolution specialist at another offshore law firm.