DWF, the global provider of integrated legal and business services, is due to welcome James Colville as Head of Insurance in Dublin and managing partner of the Dublin office in January 2025.
James brings a wealth of experience to his new role, having qualified, trained, and worked in both England and Ireland with firms such as Greenwoods, Eversheds, and DAC Beachcroft.
Sidley is pleased to announce that Tania Bedi will be joining Sidley’s Global Finance practice as a partner in London. She comes from Latham & Watkins, where she was co-chair of the London Finance Department, and follows the recent arrivals of a team of five Global Finance partners (Jay Sadanandan, Sam Hamilton, Fergus O’Domhnaill, Joe Kimberling, and Ben Wright) as well as two Capital Markets partners (Scott Colwell and Patrick Kwak), also from Latham & Watkins.
Weightmans has made a raft of hires in response to rapidly increasing demand for its insurance law practice, and a period of record growth.
The large loss team based in Manchester welcomes Luisa Lamb and Elizabeth Wallace, both of whom join from Clyde & Co, where they were partners in the catastrophic injury and large loss team. Their experience includes working on high value motor, employer’s and public liability matters, as well as catastrophic injury claims.
Shoosmiths announces the appointment of Partner Mark Churchman to the firm’s Private Equity (PE) team within the Corporate practice.
Mark is set to strengthen the Corporate team’s capabilities by providing sectoral expertise among existing energy and infrastructure (E&I) and tech clients, while generating additional streams of work with US-based sponsors investing in the UK and Europe.
Niclas Widjeskog – one of the most prominent dispute resolution and litigation lawyers in the Nordics – joins CMS Wistrand as a partner
DWF, the global provider of integrated legal and business services, is delighted to announce the addition of three partners to its Warsaw office, effective from 1 January 2025. Beata Balas-Noszczyk, Tomasz Grygorczuk and Bartosz Romanowski, along with their team are set to join from Hogan Lovells.
This move will further strengthen DWF’s Commercial Services offering, particularly in insurance and financial services, enhancing its ability to serve clients in Poland and across Europe.
UK & Ireland law firm Browne Jacobson announces further growth to its corporate team with the appointment of partner Phil Pugh.
Phil joins the firm from Acuity Law and with more than 15 years of experience, has acted on a wide range of high value and cross border transactions including acquisitions, disposals, investments, joint ventures and restructures.
Phil has specialist experience in technology, healthcare and education sectors and advises a diverse portfolio of clients, recently advising on the sale of a Premier League football club to an American consortium.
Global law firm Ashurst announces the appointment of Maha Osman as partner in the Corporate practice, based in Dubai, as the firm continues to invest in and further expand its private capital practice in the Middle East and international markets.
Maha has a wealth of experience in private capital investments, particularly in the Middle East and Africa. She works extensively with financial sponsors, including private equity investors and sovereign wealth funds, on a broad range of transactions.
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP is pleased to welcome leading retail industry advisor and highly regarded policy advocate Paul Martino, who joins the firm as a partner. Martino served for ten years as vice president and senior policy counsel at the National Retail Federation (NRF), the world’s largest retail trade association, where he was responsible for developing industry-leading policy advocacy efforts on emerging technology and consumer data privacy issues.
Sidley is pleased to announce that Clive Gringras has joined the firm as a partner in the Commercial Litigation and Disputes practice in London. Prior to joining Sidley, he was head of the Technology, Media and Telecoms practice at CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP.