Kieran Stone has joined Locke Lord’s London office as a Partner in the Firm’s Corporate Practice Group. Stone’s extensive experience advising clients in the energy and technology sectors on equity capital markets transactions will further enhance the Firm’s capabilities as well as its growing London office.
Jeantet is recruiting a team recognized for its energy transition and sustainable development activities and strengthens its public law, banking and M&A departments with the hiring of three new partners and their teams: Hélène Gelas, Alexae Fournier-de Faÿ and Philippe Raybaud.
These hirings reflect the firm’s constantly growing momentum and are in line with Jeantet’s growth strategy, its desire to expand its offer to meet the increasing demand of its clients. Now the firm has 31 partners.
A&L Goodbody LLP (ALG) has appointed Mark Ellis as a partner in its Commercial & Technology group.
Mark advises domestic and international clients on all aspects of technology, intellectual property, privacy and data protection related law. Mark's practice at ALG has a particular focus on the leading tech companies as well as on financial institutions and life sciences companies.
National law firm Weightmans has hired Partner Lucy Phipps as its family law offering in Leeds continues to grow.
Lucy is a specialist family law solicitor with over 15 years of expertise. Regularly instructed to advise professionals, landowners and well-known personalities, Lucy has a wealth of expertise in divorce, reaching financial settlements and child custody disputes.
Lucy worked for the UK’s largest family law firm in its central London office, before returning to Yorkshire to lead the family team at an established high street firm and then on to Weightmans.
Squire Patton Boggs announces the appointment of Carlos Blanco Morillo as partner in the Corporate practice in Madrid. A leading private equity lawyer, Mr. Blanco joins from Roca Junyent, where he led the Corporate and M&A department of the Madrid office and was previously office managing partner. Mr. Blanco arrives with three associates.
Allen & Overy announces that Marwa Elborai has been appointed as a high yield partner in A&O’s leveraged finance practice, based in London. Marwa joins from Shearman & Sterling where she has been a U.S. qualified partner since 2016, working in both its New York and London offices.
Hilary has extensive experience acting for and advising housing associations on the acquisition and sale of land, stock transfer, stock rationalisations and plot sales as well as advising clients on bank finance and refinancing work. In addition, Hilary's vast experience in acting for open market developers, acquiring sites for development and setting up sale schemes complements the strengths of the existing team. She is also recognised as a leading practitioner for Social Housing in both Legal 500 and Chambers rankings.
The international law firm Gianni & Origoni announces the entry into the Rome office of Stefano Rossi, a professional active in the insurance litigation sector, who joins the Litigation and Arbitration department as a Partner. Together with Rossi, the professionals Ludovica Rossi and Piera Starnino also join the Firm in the role of Associate.
Stefano Rossi, who comes from Grimaldi Studio Legale, has many years of experience in the judicial and consultancy field, with particular reference to the insurance sector.
Loyens & Loeff Luxembourg is pleased to announce that Frédéric Lemoine, corporate and M&A expert, joined our team as Partner.
In line with our strategy to further serve our clients and to dedicate more resources to the private equity sector, Frédéric’s arrival is an important milestone in our continued ambition to maintain our ever-growing team of experts.
His 17 years of experience will allow us to better advise our clients on complex transactions involving joint-ventures, investment holding structures, on both domestic and international markets.
WilmerHale is pleased to announce that Matthew B. Kulkin, a former Commodity Futures Trading Commission official, has joined the firm as a partner and member of its industry-leading Securities and Financial Services group. He will lead the firm’s futures and derivatives practice.