Japanese investment bank Nomura has hired lawyer Peter Siembab to head up the bank’s transaction legal team in Hong Kong later this month, covering the investment banking division in Asia, excluding Japan.

Siembab's team, which is comprised of five lawyers based in both Hong Kong and Singapore, plays an active role in advising and assisting in structuring, originating and executing Nomura's investment banking advisory, capital markets and financing transactions in the region. The team also works closely with Nomura's related businesses and legal teams providing derivatives solutions.

"We have an outstanding legal team and Peter's addition, with his knowledge and extensive experience, will complement the team's breadth and depth making us a top-notch in-house legal group in the market," notes Charlton Tse, Nomura's  regional head of transaction legal for non-Japan Asia. 

Siembab joins Nomura from Citi where he was most recently managing litigation matters for the US bank in Asia and, previously, advised Citi's investment bank on transactional matters in the region. Prior to Citi, Peter was at Skadden Arps in Hong Kong and Los Angeles, and Dow Lohnes + Albertson in Washington DC.