International law firm CMS is strengthening its Real Estate practice with the appointment of Rebecca Moore, who joins the firm as partner from BCLP.

Rebecca has a strong practice in the residential sector, particularly the Private Rented Sector and the affordable living sector, and brings a wealth of experience in development work for residential funds, developers, and institutional clients. She also regularly acts for investors in the acquisition and disposal of prime retail and office assets.

Wolf Theiss announces Nicholas Coddington’s appointment as new Partner in Banking & Finance starting in the firm’s Vienna office in mid-February. As former Magic Circle member, Mr. Coddington will enhance Wolf Theiss’ services across Austria and the CEE/SEE region.

Expanding its leading global labor and employment practice by adding to its ranks in Germany, Morgan Lewis welcomes partner Dr. Philipp Schäuble to its Munich office. Arriving from McDermott, Philipp will advise businesses on a range of individual and collective employment-related litigation and counseling matters.

Baker Botts L.L.P., a leading international energy, technology and life sciences law firm, announced that Scott Nelson has joined the firm as a partner in the Litigation Department in Houston. He will lead the Department’s Labor and Employment practice.

Nelson advises and defends many of America’s top companies on labor and employment issues. He has over 25 years of experience and has had tremendous success with high-profile domestic and international employment matters, as well as complex employment and commercial litigation. He joins the firm from Hunton Andrews Kurth.

Laure Bonin will re-join leading international law firm Herbert Smith Freehills as a partner in its Finance practice in Paris. She previously practised at Herbert Smith Freehills for almost 15 years, four of which were as a Finance partner.

Laure re-joins from August Debouzy, where she was head of the Banking and Finance team. She has more than 20 years of experience advising banks and debt funds on syndicated loans, acquisition finance and leveraged finance.

Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright welcomes new regulatory investigations and dispute resolution partner Kimberley MacKay in Melbourne.

Kimberley has acted for both regulators and companies and directors in regulatory investigations and prosecutions in corporation, financial services and competition matters. She has also represented defendants in large class actions, at first instance and on appeal, and has acted for plaintiffs and defendants in breach of contract, negligence, misleading and deceptive conduct, oppression, and breach of director duties cases.

Dentons has expanded its Banking & Finance offering, with the addition of Partner, Nicola Schofield to its Melbourne office. 

Nicola is a banking and finance lawyer with over 14 years’ experience in property and development finance, residential and commercial development, public private partnerships (PPP), project finance, and corporate finance on both the lender and borrower side.

Further bolstering its German and European M&A offerings, Paul Hastings (Europe) LLP announced that the firm has added leading corporate lawyer Dr. Nikolaos Paschos as a partner in Frankfurt and chair of Germany M&A.

Global law firm Reed Smith is pleased to announce the arrival of partners Luis Fortuño and Juliya Arbisman. The duo brings considerable experience in complex international dispute resolution and transactions, as well as regulatory, governmental and policy counseling on behalf of investors and countries. Both join the firm from Steptoe.

Global law firm White & Case LLP has expanded its Global Debt Finance Practice, and its financial institutions and private equity global industry groups, with the addition of Lauren Winter as a partner in London.