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PARTNER MOVES - Keystone Law bolsters its senior lawyer ranks with eight partners

04 Mar 2025

Keystone Law is delighted to welcome eight partners to the firm. Elaine Nolan, Carl Rohsler, Nick Alfillé, David Thompson, Jo Bewley, Felicity Sergeant, Emma Loveday-Hill, and Daniel Rose will add to the firm’s highly established Commercial, Corporate, Employment, Family, Intellectual Property, Residential Property, Commercial Property, and Restructuring & Insolvency practices.

James Knight, Founder and CEO of Keystone Law, said:

PARTNER MOVES - Hogan Lovells further strengthens its global IERP practice with Vietnam hire

04 Mar 2025

Global law firm Hogan Lovells has announced the appointment of David Harrison as a partner in the firm’s global Infrastructure, Energy, Resources and Projects (IERP) practice, based in Ho Chi Minh City. David joins Hogan Lovells from Mayer Brown, where he led that firm’s Vietnam practice for 11 years. 

PARTNER MOVES - Eversheds Sutherland boosts its energy offering with new partner appointment

04 Mar 2025

Marc, who joins from Houthoff, brings a wealth of experience and in-depth knowledge in energy and industrial projects.

Prior to Houthoff, Marc spent 13 years at law firm Simmons & Simmons having also previously served as in-house counsel at DSM and Energie Beheer Nederland (EBN).

Marc’s main focus is on energy and industry related projects, commercial contracting and regulatory advice. He has extensive experience in the energy sector, acting for national and international oil, gas, electricity, renewables and CCS companies.

PARTNER MOVES - DLA Piper welcomes Neil K Vohra to the private equity practice

04 Mar 2025

DLA Piper is pleased to welcome Neil K. Vohra as a partner in the Private Equity Practice. He will be based in the Chicago office.

Vohra’s practice focuses on negotiating and structuring complex business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, private equity investments, strategic investments, executive compensation and incentive equity arrangements, and other general corporate matters.

PARTNER MOVES - Clifford Chance welcomes back partner Gianluca Bacchiocchi, growing US energy & infrastructure financing capabilities

04 Mar 2025

Global law firm Clifford Chance has hired Gianluca Bacchiocchi as a partner in its Global Financial Markets team as the firm expands its energy and infrastructure financing offering in the US. Bacchiocchi returns to Clifford Chance, having previously been a partner at the firm from 2015-2021.

PARTNER MOVES - Greenberg Traurig expands in Portland with prominent electric utility transactions shareholder Scott M. Rickard

03 Mar 2025

Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP continues its strategic growth in the Western United States and its Energy & Natural Resources Practice with the addition of Scott M. Rickard as a shareholder. Based in the firm's Portland office, Rickard joins from Troutman Pepper.

PARTNER MOVES - Baker McKenzie grows transactional practice with addition of partner Chris Milliken in Vietnam

03 Mar 2025

Baker McKenzie announces that leading transactional lawyer Chris Milliken has joined the Firm as a partner, based in Ho Chi Minh City. Chris's arrival underscores the continued, robust growth of the Firm's transactional team in the region, which has seen the addition of M&A partners Shirin Tang and Ang Lip Kian in Singapore, Bima Sarumpaet in its member firm, HHP Law Firm, in Indonesia and Banking & Finance partner Bryan Paisley in Sydney.

PARTNER MOVES - Patent trial lawyers Brent Ray and Abby Parsons join Arnold & Porter’s intellectual property practice

03 Mar 2025

Arnold & Porter is pleased to announce the additions of Brent Ray and Abby Parsons as partners in the firm’s Intellectual Property practice, resident in Chicago and Houston. Ray and Parsons’ arrivals underscore the firm’s strategic focus on expanding its core offerings in key markets and solidifying its reputation as a “go to” firm for clients in complex intellectual property disputes. The firm’s Chicago and Houston offices have grown steadily over the past few years, attracting top legal talent in multiple practice areas.

PARTNER MOVES - DLA Piper appoints Gordon Houseman to its international finance practice

03 Mar 2025

DLA Piper has announced the appointment of Gordon Houseman to its International Finance practice, effective 3 March 2025.

Joining the firm’s London office, Gordon brings more than a decade of experience advising organisations across multiple sectors on debt and equity capital markets matters and has a focus on high-yield bonds, Term Loan B, private credit, corporate and acquisition financing, and supports restructuring and insolvency matters.

PARTNER MOVES - Clifford Chance adds Japan outbound M&A partner Jeff Schrepfer in Tokyo

03 Mar 2025

Global law firm Clifford Chance announced that M&A partner Jeff Schrepfer will join the firm's Corporate practice as a partner in Tokyo.
Jeff brings over 20 years of experience of working in Japan on complex, cross-border M&As, spanning multiple industries, from semiconductors, energy, health and life sciences to automotives.

As a US-qualified lawyer with an outstanding track record of advising clients on their outbound investments into the US, Jeff is recognised as a leading advisor to some of Japan's largest companies and investors.