Australian insurance law firm Wotton + Kearney will open the first Asian Office in Singapore, and has hired two partners, Ben Nicholson and Tom Morrison, from Kennedys Singapore, to lead the practice. The office will officially open in June this year.

Founded in 2002, Wotton + Kearney has established offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra, Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. In June this year, Singapore would become Wotton + Kearney’s 10th office across the Asia Pacific region and its first in mainland Asia.

Nicholson is an insurance and reinsurance lawyer who specializes in property, energy, engineering and infrastructure risks. He joined Kennedys as a partner in 2015. Before that, he was a partner in the Singapore office of DAC Beachcroft.

Morrison focuses on the construction, energy and property sectors. He started practising in the London office of Kennedys in 2014, relocated to Singapore in 2018, and became the partner in 2020.