UK & Ireland law firm Browne Jacobson announces further growth to its corporate team with the appointment of partner Phil Pugh.

Phil joins the firm from Acuity Law and with more than 15 years of experience, has acted on a wide range of high value and cross border transactions including acquisitions, disposals, investments, joint ventures and restructures.

Phil has specialist experience in technology, healthcare and education sectors and advises a diverse portfolio of clients, recently advising on the sale of a Premier League football club to an American consortium.

Global law firm Ashurst announces the appointment of Maha Osman as partner in the Corporate practice, based in Dubai, as the firm continues to invest in and further expand its private capital practice in the Middle East and international markets.

Maha has a wealth of experience in private capital investments, particularly in the Middle East and Africa. She works extensively with financial sponsors, including private equity investors and sovereign wealth funds, on a broad range of transactions.

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP is pleased to welcome leading retail industry advisor and highly regarded policy advocate Paul Martino, who joins the firm as a partner. Martino served for ten years as vice president and senior policy counsel at the National Retail Federation (NRF), the world’s largest retail trade association, where he was responsible for developing industry-leading policy advocacy efforts on emerging technology and consumer data privacy issues.

Sidley is pleased to announce that Clive Gringras has joined the firm as a partner in the Commercial Litigation and Disputes practice in London. Prior to joining Sidley, he was head of the Technology, Media and Telecoms practice at CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP.

Multinational law firm Pinsent Masons has appointed pensions partner, Ian Mylrea, to join the firm’s financial services sector in Manchester

Ian advises on all aspects of pensions law with a particular focus on defined benefit schemes, including those sponsored by trade unions and the UK subsidiaries of international corporations.

Charles Russell Speechlys announces the appointment of Charlotte Hill as Partner in the Firm’s Financial Services Regulatory team in London.

International law firm Bird & Bird has appointed Caroline Bruyant Bonde as a new partner in the Finance & Financial Regulation practice in Copenhagen, effective 1 January 2025. This marks the firm’s continued strategic growth trajectory into the new year.

Caroline is a dual-qualified lawyer in Denmark and England and Wales, with 15 years of international transactional experience in finance, asset management, financial regulation, shipping, and energy in private practice and in-house, based in Copenhagen and London.

International law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP announced that Sunny Singh has returned to the Firm as Co-Chair of Weil’s market-leading Restructuring Department, based in the New York office.

Sunny, who joined Weil in 2008 and was a partner in the Restructuring Department from 2017 to 2023, arrives from another international law firm where he was Head of their U.S. Company-Side Restructuring team. At Weil, he will serve alongside Matt Barr, Gary Holtzer and Jeffrey Saferstein as Co-Chair of the global Restructuring Department, comprising 140 lawyers around the world.

Trowers & Hamlins has bolstered its Projects and Construction offering in the West Midlands with the hire of new partner Rachael Hobbis.

Global law firm Hogan Lovells announced the expansion of its Singapore office and private equity and funds practice area with the addition of three highly acclaimed and experienced partners, Siew Kam Boon, Timothy Goh and Thomas Kim, slated to join the firm in January 2025.

The trio will join from Dechert LLP and will become part of the firm’s Private Equity and Funds practice, based in Singapore. Siew Kam will also assume the role of Head of Private Equity for the APAC region.