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PARTNER MOVES - Orrick grows Paris finance team

14 May 2024

Manaf Triqui joins Orrick’s French finance team as a partner.

He brings deep experience advising investors and issuers in connection with private debt and debt capital markets transactions.

He also represents investors and fintechs and other growth companies on venture debt issuances, and will collaborate with Orrick’s venture capital team, which ranks No.1 by volume in France and Europe (Pitchbook).

Manaf previously led the French Debt Capital Markets practices at global law firms.

PARTNER MOVES - Intellectual Property partner Jeff Morton joins Haynes Boone in Southern California

14 May 2024

Haynes and Boone, LLP is thrilled to welcome Partner Jeff Morton to the firm’s Orange County office and Intellectual Property Practice Group. Morton joins from Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP, where he was leader of the Life Sciences Group and co-leader of the Licensing and Technology Transactions Practice.

PARTNER MOVES - Paul, Weiss adds M&A partner in New York

14 May 2024

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP announced that Chelsea N. Darnell has joined the firm as a partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions practice in the Corporate Department, resident in New York. Darnell advises public and private companies and private equity firms on M&A, corporate governance matters and activism defense issues.

“We are pleased to welcome Chelsea, who has worked with leading public and private companies on some of their most high-profile transactions, to our partnership,” said Paul, Weiss Chairman Brad S. Karp.

PARTNER MOVES - Cleary Gottlieb continues strategic growth of private equity practice with London-based partner and counsel hires

14 May 2024

Continuing the transatlantic expansion of its private equity practice, Cleary Gottlieb announces the arrival of Alexander van der Gaag and Joanna Roberts, who are joining the firm’s London office.

Alex is a debt finance partner advising private equity firms and corporates on leveraged finance acquisitions, private credit and syndicated lending, infrastructure, and real estate finance. He has worked on some of the largest and most high-profile leverage buyouts over the past decade.

PARTNER MOVES - Browne Jacobson appoints new head of education employment

14 May 2024

Browne Jacobson has strengthened its education practice with the appointments of a partner and senior associate specialising in employment law.

Polly O’Malley joins the UK and Ireland law firm as Head of Education Employment after eight years at Stone King, where she was Deputy Head of Education.

Faisal Sameja has also been hired as Senior Associate from the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), where he headed up the in-house legal team as Senior Solicitor.

PARTNER MOVES - Navigating family matters across international waters

14 May 2024

Melissa Lesson joins Mills & Reeve’s family team in London to enhance the practice’s client offering and international network.

Melissa was formerly a partner at Mishcon de Reya where she was head of the Anglo-French family law team and the French Group.

She specialises in separation, divorce, trusts, and jurisdictional disputes, including complex cases involving significant assets. These often also include children matters and prenuptial agreements.

PARTNER MOVES - Taylor Wessing bolsters Dublin office with hire of partner Eoin Martyn

14 May 2024

Taylor Wessing is delighted to announce the appointment of Eoin Martyn, a highly experienced lawyer specialising in pharmaceutical and biotechnology patent litigation, as a partner. Eoin joins the firm's esteemed Patents and Innovation team in Dublin. Eoin joins from a leading law firm and begins work at Taylor Wessing with immediate effect.

PARTNER MOVES - Dentons strengthens its corporate, dispute resolution and restructuring practices in Poland with two new hires

14 May 2024

Global law firm Dentons has expanded its Corporate and M&A practice in Warsaw with the arrival of partner Maciej Skoczyński. The Firm has also strengthened its Litigation and Arbitration and Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy practices, with the recruitment of managing counsel Marek Neumann.