Eversheds Sutherland is pleased to announce that Sarah Paul has joined the Litigation Practice Group in the New York office as partner. Ms. Paul was most recently an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York in the Criminal Division.
DLA Piper has strengthened its project development and finance offering with the appointment of Vincent Seah as a partner in its Finance and Projects (F&P) practice, based in Singapore.
DLA Piper is pleased to announce that Jérôme Pentecoste will be joining the firm as a partner in the Litigation & Regulatory practice in Paris.
Jérôme has over 27 years' experience and joins the firm from Gowling WLG. He specialises in public-private partnerships (PPP), public business law, financing and administrative litigation, and he has assisted public bodies in a number of major PPP contracts and regularly intervenes on issues of execution or early termination of public contracts for public clients, including litigation.
Following TLT's appointment to the Insolvency Service's £16m legal panel, the firm has announced the appointment of Claire Graham, leading insolvency and disputes lawyer, as partner in its growing Manchester office.
Claire, who joins from DWF, will jointly manage the Insolvency Service panel relationship with former colleague and past President of Manchester Law Society Jon Hainey, who moved to TLT as partner from DWF in May 2018.
Dentons has expanded its corporate capabilities in Saudi Arabia with the hire of Corporate and Commercial partner Irfan Butt. Irfan joins from Khoshaim and Associates in association with Allen & Overy where he was counsel.
Amman—Dentons has bolstered its corporate capabilities in Jordan with the hire of partner Ala' George Musleh earlier this month. Since qualifying to practice in Jordan in 1999, Ala' has advised both Jordanian and international clients on a wide range of leading corporate and commercial, energy, finance aviation and litigation matters.
Dentons has strengthened its Employment offering with partner Ruth Nocka bringing her expertise to the Sydney office.
Ruth is a market-leading workplace relations lawyer who advises on all areas of employment law including termination of employment, managing injured employees, advising on contracts and statutory interpretation.
Less than two weeks after announcing that it has opened an office in Dallas with a group of 16 lawyers, including eight partners, Reed Smith today announced that it has added its ninth partner to this burgeoning office. Jorge Gutierrez has joined the firm as a partner in its Energy & Natural Resources practice, bringing to the Reed Smith an esteemed practice in exploration and production (E&P), midstream, and energy finance. Gutierrez was previously a partner at Norton Rose Fulbright.
Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP continued its strategic expansion in California with the addition of intellectual property litigator Xavier Marc Brandwajn to the Silicon Valley office. Brandwajn represents Silicon Valley and international clients in high-stakes patent disputes and other intellectual property matters in federal and state courts, before the International Trade Commission (ITC), and in arbitration. He joins the firm from Alston & Bird, where he was a partner.
Dr. Silke Gantzckow is joining Baker McKenzie as a partner. With this new addition, Baker McKenzie strengthens the Corporate/M&A team in Frankfurt. Silke is joining from DLA Piper, where she has been a partner since 2010. Together with her team, which includes Kathrin Weber (associate) and Stephan Orf (notary specialist), she will be joining the team as soon as possible.