Penelope Christophorou, a finance lawyer with more than 25 years’ experience, joins Morgan Lewis as a partner in New York. Arriving from Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, Penelope will advise on commercial finance transactions, particularly those related to bankruptcy.
Morrison Foerster, a leading global law firm, is pleased to announce the arrival of Ben Summerfield, who joins the firm as a partner in the Litigation Department, based in London. Summerfield brings over two decades of complex commercial litigation and arbitration experience to the firm and has acted in many major disputes matters.
Charlie Lightfoot has joined Cooley as global chair of the firm’s international arbitration practice and as a partner in the firm’s litigation department. Lightfoot arrives from Jenner & Block, where he was global chair of the firm’s international arbitration practice.
David Berman has joined Covington as a partner to spearhead its Financial Services Practice in London.
Latham & Watkins is pleased to announce that Jessica Cohen has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in the Data & Technology Transactions Practice. Cohen advises on the intellectual property (IP) and technology aspects of complex transactions and has a broad-based counseling practice focused on the acquisition, development, and commercialization of intellectual property and technology.
Milbank LLP is pleased to announce the arrival of Paul Bennett IV as a partner in the firm’s Global Corporate/M&A Group in New York. Mr. Bennett focuses his practice on advising private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies on mergers and acquisitions.
“Paul is an experienced and talented private equity lawyer, and his addition will further strengthen our private equity and M&A practices,” Milbank Chairman Scott A. Edelman said. “We are delighted to welcome him to Milbank.”
Rising star Albert Yu joins Orrick’s London E&I team as a partner.
Albert advises project sponsors, lenders export credit agencies and funds on market-leading renewables projects, with particular experience in offshore wind.
He joins an Orrick team in London that is helping to lead the development of the on and offshore wind markets across Europe and Asia (through collaboration with the firm’s Singapore office), among other renewables projects.
Global law firm Baker McKenzie announced that Colleen Baime has joined the Firm's North America Litigation and Government Enforcement Practice in Chicago. A highly regarded litigator licensed in both Illinois and California, Colleen joins Baker McKenzie's deep bench of experienced disputes lawyers handling high-stakes commercial disputes for multinational companies.
We have appointed two partners to lead our growing international arbitration practice as its capabilities across international dispute resolution expand.
Michael Lightfoot and Kieran McCarthy, both of whom join Gateley from Clifford Chance, will build upon our existing services within international arbitration and commercial litigation to develop a comprehensive, targeted and multi-jurisdictional practice for clients dealing with strategic international disputes.
National law firm Weightmans has appointed Daniel West to Partner in the firm’s London office.
Daniel joins the firm from Horwich Farrelly and has joined Weightmans’ casualty and police teams. He specialises in a unique combination of both product liability and actions against the police.