Arrival of Jon Holland and Andrea Monks will further enhance the firm’s litigation and contentious regulatory practices in the City.

Latham & Watkins is pleased to announce that Jon Holland and Andrea Monks will join the London office as partners in the Litigation & Trial Department. Holland and Monks are experienced and respected litigators, with notable track records advising retail and investment banks, asset managers, and other financial institutions in a number of landmark disputes and contentious regulatory matters.

Hunton & Williams LLP continues the expansion of its global corporate practice with the addition of Angus Duncan as a partner in the firm’s London office. He brings more than 25 years of experience handling complex structured finance and specialty finance transactions.

Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP announced today that Steve Benz, former Head of Litigation at Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly), has joined the firm as a partner in the Life Sciences and Healthcare Regulatory practice, resident in the Washington, DC office.

International law firm Ashurst today announces the appointment of real estate and asset finance expert Filip Kurkowski to its finance team in Frankfurt as of February.

DLA Piper is continuing to expand its leading Finance & Projects and Corporate teams with the appointment of two new partners in the Tokyo office. Kaoru Umino will lead the Finance & Projects practice and Dan Matsuda will lead the Energy sector within Tokyo's Corporate practice.

TLT has appointed Andrew Jennings as a corporate partner in its Belfast office, completing the firm's full service offering in NI and demonstrating its ambitions in the NI legal market.

TLT celebrated its fifth anniversary and five years of sustained growth in Belfast in 2017. With this appointment, TLT offers NI clients a full service corporate commercial offering out of its Belfast office backed by a national team of leading experts.

Hogan Lovells announced today that Kevin Keenan has joined the firm’s Houston office as a partner in the Infrastructure, Energy, Resources, and Projects practice.

We are delighted that Kevin has joined us, said Philip Robb, Global head of the firm's Infrastructure, Energy, Resources, and Projects practice. He has a strong background and global experience, and already works with many of our existing energy clients. Kevin gives our practice the additional strength to expand our client services in the energy space in general, and in LNG in particular.

Littler, the world’s largest employment and labor law practice representing management, has expanded into Italy with the addition of a six-lawyer team in Milan led by experienced Italian principals Carlo Majer and Edgardo Ratti. This marks the fourth European country Littler has entered in just over two years following expansion into Germany, France and the United Kingdom and brings its global footprint to more than 75 offices in 17 countries.

Simpson Thacher represented Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners in connection with the acquisition of euNetworks, which closed on January 11, 2018.

euNetworks owns and operates dense fiber-based metropolitan networks in 14 sites in Europe, connected by an intercity backbone covering 49 cities in 15 countries.

Ropes & Gray advised Nanjing, China-based Simcere Pharmaceutical Group in a strategic collaboration with Netherlands-based Merus to obtain an exclusive license to develop and commercialize in China three bispecific antibodies using Merus’ Biclonics technology platform in immunooncology.