Mr. Pringle’s arrival highlights the continued expansion of the firm’s New York office and its global private equity and M&A capabilities

Morrison & Foerster, a leading global law firm, today announced that Omar Pringle has joined the firm as a partner in its Mergers + Acquisitions and Private Equity Investments + Buyouts practices in New York. Mr. Pringle brings to the firm significant experience advising corporates and private equity firms on their high-profile M&A transactions.

National law firm Irwin Mitchell has appointed a new public law partner to help support the ongoing success of the firm’s acclaimed public law and human rights team. Based in the London office, Oliver Studdert joined the public law and human rights national team on 21 April after ten years at Simpson Millar. With over 15 years’ experience working on a range of  public law cases, Oliver joins Irwin Mitchell to help support the public law team in delivering the success that has seen them involved in some of the country’s most complex and high profile cases in recent years.

International law firm Gowling WLG is pleased to announce the arrival of Patrick Mousset as partner in the Corporate M&A / Private Equity department in Paris. The appointment is in line with the expansion strategy of the Paris office and underlines its commitment to continued growth in France.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Aly Kassam has rejoined the firm’s Dubai office.  Kassam, formerly with Latham & Watkins LLP, will continue to focus on cross-border banking and finance transactions, including both conventional and Islamic financing, restructuring and other transaction financing matters.

TLT has continued the recent expansion of its UK projects, infrastructure and construction (PIC) team with the appointment of transactional construction expert Jahanara Hussain as partner.

The strategic appointment deepens the firm’s capabilities in construction and engineering, adding critical transactional expertise to its full service team and supporting the firm’s key priority sectors, including real estate, retail & consumer goods, leisure, food & drink and public sector.

DLA Piper is appointing Sophie Lessar as partner to its Intellectual Property and Technology (IPT) Practice. Sophie joins on 1 June and will be based in London.

Sophie joins from Simmons & Simmons where she focused on retail financial services, in particular payment services, e-money, banking products, lending and consumer laws. She also has particular experience in Fintech and has worked on numerous digitisation initiatives undertaken by various established corporates.

DAC Beachcroft is pleased to announce the expansion of its Real Estate offering in Manchester with the hire of residential development partner Dan Kendall and the relocation of Gemma Leonard from its London office to head the North West Residential Development team.