Gowling WLG is delighted to welcome Bachir A Chakra as a partner, and David Aylen as a consultant to its leading global IP and tech groups in the Middle East.
We welcome Tania De Swart as a new partner in our Dubai office, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Tania has been practicing in the UAE for the past 16 years, and brings extensive regional insights to her already impressive legal career. Her areas of speciality include; corporate, commercial, M&A, joint ventures, restructurings, corporate governance, foreign direct investments and employment law.
International commercial law firm Hill Dickinson has announced the latest move in its international growth strategy with the opening of a new office in Limassol, Cyprus.
The firm has joined forces with shipping partners George Zambartas and Ester Toumpouris to establish a new base on the island that will operate as Hill Dickinson in association with G Zambartas LLC.
Linklaters is delighted to announce that leading M&A dealmaker Hubert Segain will be joining the firm as co-head of the Paris Corporate practice alongside Bruno Derieux.
With more than 20 years’ experience, Hubert Segain specialises in public and private M&A, joint ventures, stock exchange law, capital market transactions, corporate governance, and group reorganisations. He joins the firm from Herbert Smith Freehills where he headed its Corporate practice in Paris and served on its global governing Council.
Freshfields announced that Steven Li has joined the firm’s M&A group in New York.
Steven’s practice focuses on advising public and private companies in a variety of merger and acquisition transactions, including domestic and cross-border acquisitions and divestitures, negotiated and unsolicited transactions, carve-out transactions, minority investments and spin-offs. He also advises clients on activism defense and corporate governance.
Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright announced that nationally recognized litigators Joshua Lee and Edward Casmere have joined its Chicago office as partners. They will serve as the Chicago office’s Co-Heads of Litigation and Disputes, focusing on product liability and consumer disputes as well as environmental and mass tort litigation.
Dentons, Canada’s Global Law Firm, announces the expansion of its team in Edmonton with the addition of two highly respected legal professionals, Peter Inglis and Daniel (Dan) Stachnik, KC, in the Corporate and Litigation and Dispute Resolution groups.
Ireland’s largest and most established global law firm, Eversheds Sutherland, has strengthened its Commercial department with a new Partner.
Marie Claire Scullion has been appointed as a new Partner in employment law within the firm’s Dublin office, effective immediately.
Global law firm Goodwin announced that Mark David McPherson joined the firm’s Complex Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice as a partner, resident in the New York office.
Global law firm Goodwin announced that John Anderson will join the firm’s Private Investment Funds practice as a partner, resident in the London office.
“John has significant expertise in credit fund strategies, where we expect to see sustained high activity levels given the current high interest rate environment, as well as other private fund strategies,” said Michael Halford, co-chair of Goodwin’s Private Investment Funds practice. “We are delighted that he will be joining the firm.”