Global law firm Clyde & Co has announced plans to open three new offices across the Southwestern United States region, in Phoenix, Arizona, Denver, Colorado and Las Vegas, Nevada, with the hire of leading insurance partner Amy Samberg and her team.

The opening of the offices continues Clyde & Co’s long term strategy to create a truly national US insurance practice by providing it with a leading presence in a rapidly growing region of the country and by further enhancing its national first party insurance practice.

DLA Piper announced that Margarita Mercado-Echegaray has joined the firm’s Litigation and Regulatory practice as a partner in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

International law firm Clifford Chance has boosted its German private equity team with the high-calibre additions of partners Volkmar Bruckner and Mark Aschenbrenner as well as senior associate Samuel Frommelt. All of the new additions will be working from Clifford Chance's Munich office, while at the same time further strengthening the German and international transaction team with their specialist expertise and market experience.

Law firm Shakespeare Martineau welcomes two new partners to its Lincoln and East Midlands team as part of its growth strategy.

Employment law expert Helen Molloy joins on 1 June, with 17 years’ experience in employment law, HR and commercial matters, including military employment law (service complaints, medical discharges and disciplinary matters), high value cross-border commercial contracts and business turnaround advice.

DWF, the global provider of integrated legal and business services, has appointed pension expert, Marcus Fink as Partner.

Marcus joins DWF having spent the past few years as an independent legal consultant working on high profile pensions matters. Prior to that, he was a director at PwC’s pension legal team until March 2019. Before that, he was a Partner and head of the pensions practice at Ashurst LLP.

Watson Farley & Williams (“WFW”) is delighted to announce that Lui Ratprasatporn, a lawyer with in-depth experience and expertise in corporate & commercial law, has joined the firm’s Bangkok office as a Partner. She previously worked at a leading Thai law firm Tilleke and Gibbins (“T&G”), whose corporate and commercial department she headed up for over a decade.

Law firm Stephenson Harwood LLP has strengthened its aviation finance practice with the arrival of partner Laurence Hanley, who joins the firm in Paris.

Allen & Overy announced that Annette Kurdian and Robert Burt have been appointed as partners in A&O’s leveraged finance practice, based in London. Both Annette and Robert join from Linklaters where they were senior banking and finance partners.

DWF, the global provider of integrated legal and business services, has appointed a partner and legal director to its real estate team in Leeds.