Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP announced that Sarah McLean has joined the Firm as a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department and Private Equity practice. She is based in the Firm’s Houston office.

Sarah is a leader in private equity, with over 20 years of experience advising private equity funds and management teams on sophisticated and high-profile deals across the energy sector. She is the sixth partner to join Willkie’s cross-office energy team over the past twelve months.  

Global law firm White & Case LLP has expanded its Global Capital Markets Practice with the addition of Ryan Tou as a partner in Hong Kong.

Law firm Stephenson Harwood LLP has strengthened its Greater China commercial litigation practice with the arrival of partner Dorothy Siron, who joins the firm in Hong Kong.

Law firm Stephenson Harwood LLP has strengthened its Asia-Pacific M&A practice with the arrival of partner Danny Kan, who joins the firm in Hong Kong.

Danny is a corporate M&A lawyer who advises on major cross-border M&A transactions, corporate governance and listing compliance matters, and capital markets transactions including block trades, rights issues, pre-IPO investments, general offers and reverse takeovers. He has particular experience in the technology and life sciences sectors in Greater China.

Dentons announced that Michael Rennock has joined the Firm’s Venture Technology and Emerging Growth Companies (VTG) practice as a partner in the New York Meatpacking office. His addition comes during a period of robust growth, with several strategic additions to the VTG team in recent months. Rennock offers clients extensive knowledge and experience in M&A, securities offerings, IPOs and secondary offerings, corporate governance, and private equity and venture capital matters.

In a strategic move to fortify its Employment practice, Wolf Theiss appoints highly experienced Ondřej Beneš as the main contact for the Employment team in Prague beginning from 2024. This appointment underscores the firm’s commitment to delivering top-tier legal services in the dynamic field of employment law and marks another counsel level addition to the Prague office headed by Jitka Logesová.

nternational law firm Addleshaw Goddard has recruited project finance specialist Bruce Chen as a Partner in its Infrastructure and Energy team.

Chen, who starts on 2 January and will be based in London, joins from DLA Piper and focuses on advising lenders and sponsors on the financing of large projects in the energy transition, with a focus on European renewables assets and a particular specialism in offshore wind.

International law firm Addleshaw Goddard has appointed James Tarleton to join as partner to strengthen the Asset Based Lending team in London. 

James joins Addleshaw Goddard from Osborne Clarke where he led a full-service ABL team specialising in receivables finance, asset-based lending, specialty finance and trade finance.

Mike Davison Head of ABL & Trade Finance at Addleshaw Goddard commenting on James appointment said:

DLA Piper expands its Finance, Projects & Restructuring (FPR)-Practice with the appointment of Marcell M. Németh as partner as of 1 January 2024. With this addition, the international law firm aims to further strengthen and broaden its FPR-Practice.

Dr. Marcell M. Németh, LL.M. brings many years of Banking & Finance experience. Prior to joining DLA Piper, he worked for other reputable global law firms in Vienna and London as well as at UniCredit Bank Austria Vienna as Vice President in the Corporate & Investment Banking department.

International law firm McDermott Will & Emery welcomes Jeeseon Ahn as a partner in its Transactions Practice Group in New York. Jeeseon brings strong lender-side project finance experience to the Firm as energy and project finance deal volume continues to grow in the wake of the Inflation Reduction Act and in conjunction with an increase in energy transition initiatives globally. Jeeseon joins from Milbank.