Mr Malcolm Hitching
External Council member
Profile
Malcolm Hitching is a partner of elite law firm Macfarlanes LLP and has almost thirty years of commercial experience advising a wide range of businesses and financial institutions. He is a leading advisor to sophisticated providers of debt capital, and in recent years has built a significant practice in the litigation and legal assets finance market where he is considered to be a market leader.
Prior to joining Macfarlanes in 2020, Malcolm was a partner at Herbert Smith (now Herbert Smith Freehills) from 2005-2016, was the global head of that firm’s finance practice and was part of the executive team which oversaw what was then the world’s largest law firm merger between Herbert Smith and Freehills. He was then a partner of Ropes & Gray LLP in London before joining Macfarlanes LLP to help build that firm’s practice in the private debt and legal assets sector.