International law firm Simmons & Simmons has added to its dispute resolution (DR) team in Singapore by hiring partner Lijun Chui.
Joining from another international law firm based in Singapore, Lijun specialises in international commercial dispute resolution and investigations in the Asia-Pacific region in the technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) sector and the financial sector.
Addleshaw Goddard Ireland has appointed Craig Sowman as Joint Head of Restructuring & Insolvency as part of its continued expansion of its Dublin office. The international law firm has also announced three internal promotions with Caoilfhionn Ní Chuanacháin being promoted to Head of Disputes. Doreen Mescal and John Darmody have both been promoted to Partners within the Corporate practice.
Dentons, Canada’s Global Law Firm, welcomes Kate Stevens as a partner in the Corporate group in Calgary. Kate brings over a decade of experience in providing legal services to public issuers and private companies in various transactions, including equity and debt financings, mergers and acquisitions and corporate reorganizations. Her knowledge also extends to corporate governance, regulatory compliance, continuous disclosure and other corporate matters.
As part of its pan-European and international growth strategy, Gowling WLG is strengthening its Paris office, welcoming Marianne Schaffner who joins the firm's global intellectual property (IP) team.
Dentons announces that William Davis has joined the Firm’s Corporate, Tax and Private Client practice as a partner resident in the Houston office. Davis focuses on representing public companies and private clients in a broad range of corporate matters.
International law firm Addleshaw Goddard has recruited energy specialist Chanaka Kumarasinghe as its Singapore office head.
Chanaka, a qualified lawyer both in England & Wales and Singapore, joins the firm's Construction & Engineering team from HFW. He is an energy sector lawyer with more than 20 years' experience in the upstream, energy, construction and oil & gas sector.
Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP expanded its Restructuring & Bankruptcy Practice with the addition of Shareholder James Grogan. He joins from Paul Hastings, where Grogan practiced for almost 14 years and served as a partner.
Holland & Knight welcomes Ryan Phelps as a partner in the Tax, Executive Compensation and Benefits Practice Group in Houston. Most recently, Mr. Phelps was a partner at Kirkland & Ellis.
National law firm Freeths has appointed Ania Vernon as Corporate Partner in the East Midlands. Ania joins the firm from Shoosmiths.
As a well-regarded individual within the corporate finance community, Ania routinely leads the delivery of high quality indirect real estate M&A, both offshore and domestic. She has over ten years’ sector experience specialising in tech, retail and asset-manager M&A, and brings with her rich credentials for advising management teams on buy-outs, institution-sponsored deals and other transactional processes.
Womble Bond Dickinson announced that Allison L. Ko has joined the firm’s Greenville, South Carolina, office as a partner in the Patent Prosecution and Litigation group. She has extensive experience managing global patent and trademark portfolios, including drafting and prosecuting domestic and international patent and trademark applications, preparing infringement opinions and validity analysis of patents, negotiating and drafting license agreements, and providing patent-related opinions of counsel.