Global law firm White & Case LLP has expanded its Global Financial Restructuring and Insolvency Practice with the addition of Sophie Lyall as a partner in Hong Kong.

Leading global law firm, Baker McKenzie has hired Hannah Luqmani as a partner in the Firm’s Private Equity Practice. Hannah, who joins from Fried Frank, has a wealth of experience working for large cap private equity funds and their resultant portfolio companies on a range of complex transactions.

Global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes Paul Haswell as a partner in its Hong Kong office. Haswell joins K&L Gates from Seyfarth Shaw (Hong Kong), where he was head of their regional Technology practice, handling both contentious and non-contentious technology matters.

International law firm RPC announced that Ivan Chang joins as Partner in its Hong Kong Commercial Disputes practice. Already a disputes powerhouse, Ivan's appointment adds to its general dispute resolution and contentious regulatory work.

An experienced health and care advocate has become the second partner in as many months to join Bevan Brittan’s market leading Health & Care - Regulatory team, as it continues to grow to meet client demand.

Amanda Wright-Kluger has extensive experience of working with health and care providers across the independent and NHS markets on patient and service user care issues as well as governance and risk management.

Macfarlanes is pleased to announce that Peter Chapman joins the firm from September as a partner in the investment management group. Peter joins from Sidley Austin LLP.

Peter advises private fund sponsors across a range of asset classes including private credit, private equity, growth capital, venture capital and hedge funds. In addition to fund formation and management structuring, Peter has significant recent experience working on numerous GP-stake deals and secondaries transactions.

Shoosmiths has added bench strength to its intellectual property (IP) team with the strategic appointment of new partner, Antony Craggs.

Antony, who joins Shoosmiths’ London office from Lewis Silkin, is a highly experienced intellectual property lawyer, primarily focused on patent, trade mark and design litigation. He advises clients across a variety of sectors, including tech, medical devices, chemicals, mechanical products, fast moving consumer goods and retail, with deep multi-jurisdictional experience.

International law firm Simmons & Simmons has announced that leading legal technology and banking specialist Lucy Shurwood will join Solutions, the firm’s innovation practice, as a partner in Wavelength from Sep 2023.

Joining Simmons after seven years as a partner at another City firm, Lucy brings significant experience driving the development and delivery of legal technology and data solutions – predominantly for clients in the Financial Services sector.

International law firm Bird & Bird has appointed Finance & Financial Regulation expert Piotr Lesinski as a partner in Warsaw. He joined the firm on 4 September 2023.

International law firm Bird & Bird adds two new partners to its Madrid office. Fernando Gutiérrez Rizaldos joined the Finance & Financial Regulation team and Conchita Sáinz Sodupe joins the Real Estate team.