Hill Dickinson has poached a new legal director and two new partners from rival firms, who will join its London and Singapore offices.

Kevin Austin is leaving Norton Rose to join his new employer's London office as a legal director.

Hill Dickinson said Austin is an experience master mariner and is well known in the London Hull Market.

The firm said making a "strategic rearrangement" to its mariner team, with Joe Quain set to return from Singapore to work as a consultant in London, while Ian MacLean is heading out to join the team in the Lion City.