We have appointed a senior insurance sector lawyer to our Paris office as we seek to grow our regulatory and compliance offering across Europe.

Safine Hadri joins as partner from DS Avocats, where she was head of insurance since 2015.

Safine will be based in Paris but will work closely with colleagues across Europe, focusing her work across insurance contract law, regulatory and compliance work and claims. She has a specific interest in compliance issues and working with clients in the integration of new regulatory developments into their marketing processes.

Multinational law firm Pinsent Masons has hired partner Emily Cox to join the firm’s Technology, Media, Telecoms (TMT) Disputes team in London.

Emily joins from Stewarts where she has been a partner for the past three years, having previously worked at Linklaters and the consumer association Which?.

Head of Pinsent Masons’ TMT Disputes team, David Barker, said: “Emily has a wealth of experience in complex litigation and contentious matters, and will add further strength in depth to our team’s offering to clients.

Multinational law firm Pinsent Masons has appointed Jeroen Schouten as Technology, Media, Telecoms (TMT) partner in Amsterdam.

Jeroen has over 25 years’ experience as a telecommunications and information technology lawyer across private practice, in-house and consultant roles. He has been appointed partner after being a consultant at Pinsent Masons, supporting its Amsterdam office. Jeroen works with many high-profile clients, including PVH Europe B.V. (Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger) and Lebara. 

Clyde & Co has announced the appointment of property and liability specialist Paul Annesley as a partner in its Manchester office.

Paul joins the firm from Keoghs where he has worked as a partner since 2020, specialising in defended liability, policy coverage and subrogated recoveries on behalf of a number of the UK’s largest insurers. Previously he was a Legal Director at Clyde & Co between 2015 to 2020.

International law firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) announced the addition of Partner Katherine Cooper to the firm’s Financial Services & Disputes practice. Katherine joins the firm’s New York office.

Leading international law firm Herbert Smith Freehills has expanded its Asia private capital team in Singapore with the hire of Peiwen Chen and the relocation of Malika Chandrasegaran from the firm's Sydney office.
 
Peiwen and Malika's arrival meets growing client demand for private capital advice in their specialty areas of energy transition/infrastructure and technology respectively.

Global law firm Ropes & Gray announced that Chris Dickerson, a market leader in advising companies and sponsors in their most complex restructuring transactions, has joined the firm in Chicago. Chris’s addition is another, significant step as Ropes & Gray continues to enhance its restructuring, liability management and special situations offering.

Rachel Saltzman, an experienced environmental attorney who served as a top legal advisor for global automotive manufacturer Volkswagen Group of America (VWGoA) and as an enforcement attorney for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, has joined Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP’s nationally recognized environmental practice as a partner in Washington, D.C.

International law firm McDermott Will & Emery bolsters its Atlanta-based team with the addition of Litigation Partner Kasim Reed. Well-known in Atlanta business circles for his entrepreneurial spirit and deep professional networks, Kasim previously served two terms as mayor of Atlanta. He joins from Squire Patton Boggs.

Womble Bond Dickinson has expanded its products liability bench on the West Coast with the addition of a team of trial attorneys in California. The group, comprised of partners Claire Weglarz, Macy Chan, and Thomas Remillard in Los Angeles, partner Mirna Scheffy in San Francisco, and associates Julia Wood and Sybil Leung in Los Angeles, has extensive experience in high-risk litigation involving products liability, premises liability, environmental claims, and toxic exposures.