David Beller advises private equity and other investment firms on sophisticated corporate transactions.

Latham & Watkins LLP1 is pleased to announce that David Beller has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in the Corporate Department and member of the Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity Practices. Beller has a broad mergers and acquisitions practice encompassing both public and private acquisitions, dispositions, tender offers, co-investments, joint ventures, carve-outs, and general corporate matters, including corporate governance and takeover defense.

Hadef & Partners has further strengthened its Dubai Corporate practice with the appointment of Patrick Tweedale as a Partner. Patrick joins from the Dubai office of Dentons’ and has been based in Dubai for five years.

Patrick specialises in domestic and cross-border M&A and also has significant experience in private equity, joint ventures, corporate reorganisations and equity capital markets transactions.

The international law firm BEITEN BURKHARDT was able to recruit Dr Sebastian Weller for its Dusseldorf office. Before joining BEITEN BURKHARDT at the beginning of the year, Dr Weller worked at the Dusseldorf law firm FPS. As a Salary Partner, he will strengthen the areas Corporate/M&A, Private Equity and Venture Capital, thereby contributing to BEITEN BURKHARDT's systematic growth in these strategically important core areas.

Squire Patton Boggs is pleased to announce that it has strengthened its Restructuring & Insolvency Practice with the addition of highly experienced partners Christopher J. Giaimo and Jeffrey N. Rothleder, based in the firm’s Washington DC office. Mr. Giaimo and Mr. Rothleder arrive from Clark Hill PLC.

International legal practice Osborne Clarke has appointed two new partners in Belgium as part of the ongoing growth of the Brussels-based office. Marie Canivet (Distribution, Retail and Arbitration) joins Osborne Clarke from CMS and Hadrien Chef (Corporate) is promoted from Osborne Clarke’s own ranks.

Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has boosted its market-leading Admiralty & Crisis Management team with the hire of Victor Fenwick.

Victor joins HFW’s London office from Ince & Co, where he was a partner and deputy head of the firm’s Admiralty Business Group.

HFW’s global Admiralty & Crisis Management practice now has more than 35 specialist lawyers – including 27 partners and master mariners – with dedicated emergency response teams in London, Paris, Piraeus, Dubai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai and Australia.

Eversheds Sutherland has boosted its corporate education practice with the appointment of Partner Jon Baskerville.

Jon, who joins Eversheds Sutherland in May 2019, is currently General Counsel (GC) at INTO University Partnerships. He has significant experience of the challenges facing both the higher education sector and private providers operating in higher education.

These challenges include cross-border transactions, transnational education projects, private equity finance in higher education, and the funding of real estate infrastructure projects for universities.

International law firm Clifford Chance has appointed Andrew Patterson as a partner in the firm's leading Incentives practice.

Patterson was previously Head of Incentives Law at Barclays, where he advised the bank on global incentives and remuneration issues. He originally trained at City firm Ashurst and practiced as an incentives lawyer there until his move to Barclays in 2010.

DLA Piper has announced that Tracy Shapiro has joined the firm's Intellectual Property and Technology practice as a partner in Northern California. She will be based in the San Francisco office.

International law firm Bird & Bird today boosts its Tech & Comms sector group with the appointment of Tomasz Zalewski as a partner in its Commercial team in Warsaw.

Tomasz provides comprehensive advice to companies in the technology, healthcare, energy, industrial automation, environmental protection, defence, retail and consumer space. He handles complex development ventures and projects connected with the application of new technologies and digital transformation.