Multinational law firm Pinsent Masons has continued to grow its property team in Australia with the appointment of Florence Riviere as a planning and environment partner in Melbourne.

Florence has extensive experience advising energy and infrastructure sector clients on environment and planning matters. Florence joins Pinsent Masons from the PwC Energy Transition team where she advised on a range of significant and large-scale renewable energy projects, including wind, solar, waste-to-energy, green hydrogen and offshore wind.

The firm has continued its expansion with team hire

Top UK law firm Weightmans has further expanded its police team with the arrival of Partner Andrew Steel, Associate Emelia Bezant-Gahan and Solicitor Tom Lambourne.

The trio join the firm from Plexus Law, where they were part of the Public Sector team, advising on police law and local authority cases. They are based in Weightmans’ Manchester office but advise organisations across the UK.

Womble Bond Dickinson announced that Eryn Brasovan has joined its Baltimore office as a partner. She has extensive experience encompassing a variety of transactional and regulatory matters related to the financial services and insurance industries, including consumer and commercial lending, mergers and acquisitions, regulatory compliance and risk management, and litigation and dispute resolution.

We have expanded our planning team in the South East with two new hires. Karen Howard joins as a partner in our London office and Amanda Brodie has been appointed as a senior associate within the Guildford team.

Allen & Overy announced that Scott Cockerham has joined the firm as a partner in its U.S. Projects, Energy, Natural Resources and Infrastructure (PENRI) practice. Scott joins from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe (Orrick), where he was a partner in the global Energy & Infrastructure team.

International law firm McDermott Will & Emery welcomes David Herman to its Transactions Practice Group as a partner. David is a highly regarded real estate lawyer focusing on all aspects of commercial real estate transactions across the full spectrum of asset classes, primarily for private equity firms and other asset managers.

International law firm DAC Beachcroft has welcomed Paul Baker as a partner in its Global Insurance practice in London.

Paul, who is a specialist in Credit and Political Risks Insurance (CPRI) and international arbitration, joins DACB from Reynolds Porter Chamberlain, where he joined as a legal counsel in 2019 from Clyde & Co.

DLA Piper is pleased to welcome Dan Valencia as a partner in the Patent Litigation subgroup of DLA Piper’s Intellectual Property & Technology practice.

Don Lonczak, a seasoned tax attorney with more than 30 years of transactional tax experience, including with energy sector tax credits, has joined Pillsbury’s Washington, DC office as a partner. He comes to the firm from Bracewell LLP.

Vinson & Elkins announced that Monique Watson has joined the firm as a partner in Washington, D.C., bolstering the firm’s prominent Energy Regulatory practice. Watson possesses more than two decades of experience in energy law, specifically in oil and gas pipelines, as well as environmental impacts and permitting.