Sidley Austin LLP is pleased to announce that Aimee Fagan and Phillip Aurentz have joined the firm as partners in the Dallas office. Ms. Fagan and Mr. Aurentz will be members of the global Intellectual Property (IP) Litigation practice. Both Ms. Fagan and Mr. Aurentz join Sidley from McKool Smith.
Linda Cenedella, a seasoned lawyer with more than 20 years of experience both as in-house counsel and in private practice, has joined Morgan Lewis as a partner resident in New York. Linda, who focuses on antitrust and competition law in the banking and financial services space, arrives from JPMorgan Chase & Co., where she served as executive director and assistant general counsel in the litigation and corporate & regulatory law departments.
David Penna brings significant experience to the firm’s leading project finance and Latin America practices.
King & Spalding has recruited Ben Emmerson CBE QC, a leading counsel in public international law and international corporate risk management, as a partner in the firm’s London office. Emmerson joins the firm’s Trial & Global Disputes practice as Global Head of Public International Law.
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Laura Rupenian has joined the firm’s San Francisco office as a member of the Global Finance and Private Equity Practice Groups, where she will focus on leveraged financings for private equity firms.
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Matthew Nunan has joined the firm’s London office as a partner. Nunan, formerly a Managing Director and EMEA Head of Conduct Risk at Morgan Stanley, will focus on complex contentious financial regulatory investigations and disputes.
Law firm Stephenson Harwood LLP has strengthened its restructuring and insolvency (R&I) practice area with the arrival of partner Ian Benjamin, who will be based in its London office.
National law firm Irwin Mitchell has made a further boost to its National Construction practice with two senior appointments. Edward Davies has joined as a Partner based in the firm’s Manchester office and Hannah Mycock-Overell joins as a Senior Associate in London. The appointments will take effect in November and come hot on the heels of the recruitment of construction specialist Richard Allan who joined Irwin Mitchell as a Senior Consultant, partner level from Knights in September.
International legal and professional services firm Ince has today announced the lateral hire of Eric Eyo as Partner to its world-leading shipping team.
During his legal career, Mr Eyo has been involved in a number of significant shipping disputes. He has particular expertise in handling disputes in relation to the full spectrum of shipping contracts including charterparties, contracts of affreightment, bills of lading, letters of indemnity, bank guarantees, MOAs, shipbuilding agreements and general agency agreements.
International law firm DAC Beachcroft is pleased to announce the hire of partner Ronan McLoughlin, bolstering the firm’s Real Estate capabilities in Dublin.
Ronan has significant experience advising on both commercial and residential property matters, ranging from acquisition, development, sales, leasing and property management to property aspects of mergers and acquisitions, project work and financing. His clients are both domestic and international, operating across all sectors, and include investors, developers, occupiers, and funders.