Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP has continued the expansion of its Asia real estate practice with the addition of Mori Inada as a shareholder in its Tokyo office. Inada joins the firm from Morrison & Foerster, where he was a partner.
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP announced that William H. Hinman, most recently the Director of the Division of Corporation Finance at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, has returned to the Firm as a Partner in its Washington, D.C. office.
Global law firm Shearman & Sterling announces the appointment of Florian Harder and Jann Jetter as partners in the firm's new Munich office, joining Winfried Carli and his finance team.
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Nick Hanna will join the firm’s Los Angeles office. Hanna, a former Gibson Dunn partner, most recently served as United States Attorney for the Central District of California.
Kirkland & Ellis LLP is pleased to announce that Andrea Agathoklis Murino has joined the Firm as a partner in the Antitrust & Competition Group. Ms. Murino will be based in the Firm’s Washington, D.C., office.
Dechert LLP announced that Howard Levine and Jennifer Swan have joined the firm in Washington, D.C. and Silicon Valley, respectively, as partners in the Intellectual Property group, further expanding Dechert’s global life sciences capabilities.
Dechert LLP has added to its International Arbitration group a National Partner in Paris, Enikő Horváth. Dr. Horváth’s practice focuses on international litigation and arbitration, and public international law matters. She has over 12 years of experience acting as counsel to parties in disputes before international arbitral tribunals, domestic courts, and the European Court of Human Rights. Dr. Horváth has also advised international organizations, and served as a consultant to the OSCE and UNESCO’s Office of International Standards and Legal Affairs.
National, full service law firm, Freeths LLP, have recruited the former head of insolvency of Leeds and the North East, from Eversheds Sutherland. Paul Dutton was recruited in a strategic move to further bolster the sizeable national restructuring and insolvency practice. This brings the national insolvency and restructuring team to 35.
International law firm RPC has hired leading Commercial lawyer Tom Purton as a senior Partner to join the firm's expanding Commercial practice.
RPC has one of the leading and most comprehensive Commercial practices in the City, spanning the firm's sector focus on retail, tech, media and insurance.
Dentons Hong Kong is pleased to announce that Vivien Teu will join Dentons Hong Kong as a Partner for the Investment Funds and Corporate practice areas. Vivien will be Head of Asset Management and ESG, with her focus advising regional and global asset managers and financial institutions on legal and regulatory matters in asset management and diverse forms of investment funds, and on corporate and regulatory issues around environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) and sustainable finance.