Mayer Brown announced that Ben Eaton has joined the firm as a partner in its Tax practice in London where he will focus on the tax aspects of cross border real estate transactions and investment funds.
International law firm McDermott Will & Emery welcomes a new five lawyer US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) team to its Healthcare Practice Group. Joining from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the team includes Partners James “Jamie” Ravitz and Paul Gadiock and provides strategic counsel to FDA-regulated life sciences, digital health and healthcare services companies and their investors, including private equity.
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP announced that Timothy Cruickshank has joined the firm as a partner in the Capital Markets Group within the Corporate Department, resident in New York. Cruickshank focuses on a broad variety of capital markets and financing transactions.
Charles Russell Speechlys welcomes James Walton as a Partner within the Firm’s Banking and Finance team. James joins Charles Russell Speechlys from Edwin Coe and will be based in the Firm’s London office. James is the third Partner to join the Firm’s Business Advisory & Transaction Services division this month.
International law firm RPC announced that Lindsay Warwick, a leading media litigator, joins as Partner. An already powerful bench of over ten media litigators, the appointment cements the firm's reputation as having the UK's leading media defence practice.
Coming from Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL), publisher of the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, MailOnline, the i and Metro, where she served as Deputy Head of Editorial Legal Services, Lindsay qualified at RPC in 2007 leaving to go in-house at ANL in 2011.
TLT has appointed Juliet Stradling as partner in its future energy team. Working from TLT’s London office, Juliet’s appointment further enhances its national growth and adds to the breadth of services it offers clients in the future energy sector.
Leading law firm Blake Morgan has appointed Rob Thomas as a new partner to strengthen its corporate tax expertise.
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Rob joins the firm’s Cardiff office from his previous role as an associate director within a corporate tax practice. As well as being a specialist in UK domestic and international corporate tax, Rob is also a chartered tax adviser and a previous winner of a prestigious legal prize, LexisNexis, for his specialist tax knowledge.
David Nisbet is to join Squire Patton Boggs as a partner in its Tax Strategy & Benefits Practice Group in London.
Mr. Nisbet, who specializes in tax and structuring in the funds and private equity sector, will join from Osborne Clarke where he has been a partner for over five years and leads the private equity tax team. He was previously at White & Case.
Global, sector focused law firm HFW has continued to expand its Australia business, strengthen its shipping, aerospace, energy, insurance, and commodities expertise, and bolster its litigation funding capabilities, with the appointment of partner Maurice Thompson in Melbourne.
Maurice will join HFW from Clyde & Co with a team of seven lawyers.
nternational law firm Gowling WLG has strengthened its Financial Institutions and Services sector team with the appointment of Madhu Jain as a partner in London.
Madhu is an experienced corporate partner advising clients in the insurance and reinsurance sector. She has extensive experience advising UK and international insurers, reinsurers and intermediaries on all kinds of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and reinsurance.
Madhu's de-risking expertise also bolsters Gowling WLG's market leading pensions risk transfer (PRT) practice.