Squire Patton Boggs is pleased to announce the addition of Partner Martin “Marty” Mackowski to its Competition – Antitrust Practice in Washington, DC.

Multinational law firm Pinsent Masons has appointed partner Harjeet Lall to join its finance and restructuring team in London.

Harjeet’s practice focuses on structured finance and securitisation. She advises financial institutions including investment banks, asset managers as well as corporates on a wide range of private and public structured finance, securitisation and asset-backed securitisation transactions. 

Sarah Ferguson has joined international law firm Bird & Bird’s Employee Incentives and Benefits (EIB) team as a partner.

Sarah, who will lead the EIB team, has almost 15 years’ experience advising a mix of listed and private companies on their executive remuneration and all-employee incentives, including the design, implementation and operation of share-based and cash-based plans, related trust and tax work, global implementation and support on large cross-border transactions.

Global law firm Clyde & Co has hired tax expert Rachel Fox as a partner in its Dubai office. Rachel is joining Clyde & Co's Global Corporate & Advisory practice and will lead the firm’s Middle East tax offering.

Allen & Overy, an international law firm present in Italy for 25 years, has announced the appointment of Daniela Morante as Head of Marketing & Business Development.

Daniela will be responsible for the marketing strategy supporting the firm’s development plans in the country and she will assist the Italian leadership in the implementation of client strategy, as well as in the modulation of the firm’s value proposition.

International law firm CMS has continued its growth in Hong Kong with two strategic hires.  

Adrian Elms joins as a partner in the Dispute Resolution practice and Anthony Woo joins as a senior consultant in the Insurance practice.  Also joining with them are two associates and two legal managers.

Valarie Ney, an experienced corporate and M&A attorney, has joined Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP as a partner in Washington, D.C. Ney represents clients from a broad array of industries, including the government contracting, pharmaceutical, healthcare, energy, technology and manufacturing sectors. 

O’Melveny announced that Brian P. Brooks, former Acting US Comptroller of the Currency and prominent banking and fintech executive, has rejoined the firm as a partner in its Financial Services Practice Group and Fintech Industry Group.

Mayer Brown announced that Allison Lee has joined its Corporate & Securities practice as a partner.

With 15 years’ experience advising public and private companies and private equity firms in connection with cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic investments, distribution arrangements and secondary sale transactions across Asia, Ms. Lee joins from Debevoise & Plimpton where she was a member of the firm's Corporate Department, and Private Equity and M&A Groups in Hong Kong.

Paul, Weiss announced that 13 prominent private equity transactional partners are joining the firm to significantly expand its global private equity practices, led by Neel V. Sachdev and Roger Johnson in London and Eric J. Wedel in New York and Los Angeles. The new partners in London include Neel V. Sachdev, Roger Johnson, William Aitken-Davies, Matthew Merkle, Deirdre Jones, Kanesh Balasubramaniam and Andreas Philipson, partners in the Corporate Department covering M&A, debt finance and capital markets, and Timothy Lowe and Cian O’Connor, partners in the Tax Department. Eric J.