Addleshaw Goddard continues its client-led expansion in Germany with a strategic lateral partner hire: As of November 2024, Dr. Anders Kraft will strengthen the tax law practice at the Frankfurt office. He joins Addleshaw Goddard’s Frankfurt office with his team – counsel Dr. Susanne Knoch and associate Steffen Bellmann – from Ashurst.

With more than 18 years’ post-qualified experience, Brian has joined us from Chattertons Solicitors & Wealth Management in Newark, where he was a real estate partner. Prior to this, he worked for several law firms in London and the South East, working his way up from solicitor to partner.

In his new role, Brian will be specialising in landlord and tenant matters, providing property support for corporate transactions, and dealing with secured lending for both lenders and borrowers.

DWF, the global provider of integrated legal and business services, has welcomed Poupak Anjomshoaa as a new partner in London.

With an impressive career spanning 28 years in international arbitration and dispute resolution, Poupak brings a wealth of experience to DWF.

Having trained as a barrister at Keating Chambers, Poupak has practised at several leading law firms, including Pinsent Masons, White & Case, Norton Rose Fulbright and Baker Botts.  She has also worked in house as the General Counsel of a petrochemicals company headquartered in the MENA region.

Addleshaw Goddard the international law firm announces the appointment of Alasdair McKenzie to Partner in the Finance & Projects (F&P) group. Alasdair joins the F&P team at AG in London from law firm Gowling WLG.

Alasdair McKenzie is known in the market as being a key legal adviser to a range of financial institutions, private equity sponsors and corporates on a range of domestic and international debt products across the capital structure, including leveraged and acquisition finance, early stage debt (especially in FinTech) and emerging markets.

The global law firm Jones Day has announced that Melissa Vandewater has joined the Firm as a partner in its Real Estate Practice and is based in Chicago. She will also be part of the Firm's Energy Transition & Infrastructure group, focusing on digital infrastructure, including telecommunications, data center development, and financing.

Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP added a group of Environmental and Energy & Natural Resources practice shareholders based in the firm’s Denver office. Andrew Spielman, Courtney M. Shephard, and Eric Waeckerlin join the firm from Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP.

Cleary Gottlieb announced that Matthew Yelovich, most recently the Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California, has joined the firm’s Bay Area offices as a partner in its Americas litigation practice.

“We are delighted to welcome Matt to the firm,” said Cleary Managing Partner Michael Gerstenzang. “With his addition, we have expanded our deep bench of former federal prosecutors to the West Coast and have a significant opportunity to grow our enforcement and litigation services for clients.”

Mishcon de Reya is delighted to announce the appointment of Chris Driscoll, an experienced US-qualified corporate transactional lawyer, as a new partner in the firm's emerging companies and venture capital practice.  

International law firm McDermott Will & Emery welcomes Jason Zemmel as a partner in its transactions practice group. Based in London, Jason’s practice is focused on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and private equity (PE) matters within the healthcare sector.

Morrison Foerster, a leading global law firm, is pleased to announce the arrival of H. Thomas Felix, III (Tommy) as a partner in the firm’s Capital Markets Group in the Transactions Department, based in the San Diego office.