Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP announced that Simon Baskerville has joined the Firm as a partner in the Business Reorganization & Restructuring Department, based in the Firm’s London office.  He will serve as a Co-Chair of the European Restructuring Group.

Sidley is pleased to announce that Andrea Lucan has joined the Los Angeles office as a partner in the firm’s Energy, Transportation, and Infrastructure group. She joins Sidley from Allen & Overy, where she was the Office Managing Partner in Los Angeles, on the heels of her former partner Greg Lavigne’s arrival in Sidley’s New York office. 

Kirkland & Ellis is excited to announce that Josh Birenbaum has rejoined the Firm as a partner in the Corporate Practice Group.

“Josh is a talented lawyer with a unique combination of skills gained from his time in the military, consulting and private practice that give him a distinctive perspective for our private equity clients,” said Jon A. Ballis, Chairman of Kirkland’s Executive Committee. “We are thrilled to have him on board.”

National law firm Freeths has appointed Suriya Edwards as Construction and Engineering Partner in Bristol.

With 13 years’ experience, Suriya advises developers, funders and contractors, in addition to utility companies and waste operators, on a range of non-contentious construction matters.

Her extensive expertise covers renewable energy, including solar and battery storage, and built environment related developments, waste, utility and infrastructure projects as well as mainstream construction for commercial development work.

Watson Farley & Williams is pleased to announce that corporate and M&A expert Dr Christian Kleeberg has joined the firm as a Partner in Frankfurt. He was previously a partner at leading international firm Fried Frank.

Christian has many years of experience advising corporates and investors on M&A transactions, especially those with a cross-border element, across a wide range of sectors including ESG, transport, logistics and infrastructure. He also has extensive experience advising both domestic and international investors on projects in Germany and Europe.

Squire Patton Boggs is pleased to announce the appointment of Financial Services partner Rachel Jones, who has joined the firm in Sydney from Gilbert & Tobin.

Rachel has over 20 years’ experience in leveraged, acquisition and project finance, structured asset finance and corporate finance. Prior to joining Gilbert & Tobin in 2013, she spent seven years at Freshfields in London. Rachel also has extensive in-house experience gained from secondments at The Royal Bank of Scotland plc, Barclays Capital, GE Money and GE Commercial Finance.

Multinational law firm Pinsent Masons has added to it Australian financial services capabilities with the appointment of partner Hannah Griffiths to lead the firm’s restructuring and insolvency practice in Australia.

Hannah joins the firm, together with a team of specialist lawyers, to spearhead the development of the restructuring and insolvency practice in Australia. 

Clifford Chance announced that Florence Aubonnet is joining the firm's global Employment practice as a Partner in the Paris office.

Florence Aubonnet mainly advises international and French corporations and investment funds on employment law, intending to set up, acquire or restructure a business in France or facing sensitive issues.

Joining the firm after two decades in London at US firm Dechert, Sean Geraghty brings a wealth of experience from a broad practice spanning both mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and equity capital markets (ECM).

In M&A, Sean has expertise in both public and private M&A, joint ventures and general corporate matters – while his ECM work covers initial public offerings (IPOs), secondary offerings and public company corporate finance matters.

European law firm Fieldfisher is strengthening its Munich office with the appointment of two female partners.

Silke Goschler and Dr Susanne Weckbach will further strengthen Fieldfisher's well-established German Commercial law practice, having previously both worked as counsel at DLA Piper.

Together with experienced Hamburg Commercial partner Sara Bandehzadeh, they will continue to develop the Commercial group.

Susanne Weckbach and Silke Goschler have been advising national and multinational companies on commercial matters for over a decade.