The Barcelona office of Baker McKenzie, leading global law firm, announced the hires of Joaquín Fabré as a new partner in Banking & Finance and Gemma Piqué as counsel for Employment, strengthening its position as the leading international law firm in Barcelona and adding expertise to help clients navigate unprecedented financial and workforce challenges.
DLA Piper announced that Daniel Garen has joined the firm’s Litigation and Regulatory practice as a partner in Washington, DC.
Global law firm DLA Piper announces that leading tax disputes partner Paul McNab and litigation lawyer John Fogarty will be joining the firm in May.
International law firm DAC Beachcroft is pleased to announce that it has further expanded its presence in Scotland, following on from the arrival of a five partner-led team of complex and catastrophic injury specialists from BLM in November 2019.
The latest additions to the firm’s Glasgow office include partner Keith Mathews and associate Ed Radford, both of whom previously worked at DAC Beachcroft and are rejoining the firm from BLM.
The CMS Poland transactions group will be joined by a team of lawyers with many years’ experience in advising private equity funds and significant achievements in M&A transactions. At the beginning of August 2020 CMS will be joined by Sławomir Czerwiński and Mateusz Stępień as partners, Jarosław Gajda as a counsel, Antoni Wandzilak as a senior associate, and Dominika Pietkun as an associate.
King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) welcomed 11 new partners as well as 7 counsels (including 2 senior counsels) with open arms. They have ushered in a new force into KWM offices in Beijing, Haikou, Shanghai, Nanjing, and Suzhou with their profound hands-on experience in their respective areas of practice as a result of years of legal services.
Gregory Chin has joined Duane Morris LLP as a partner in the firm’s Corporate Practice Group in its San Francisco office. Prior to joining Duane Morris, Chin was a partner at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.
“Greg’s enthusiastic, entrepreneurial mindset and client commitment are a great fit for Duane Morris,” said Matthew A. Taylor, CEO and Chairman of Duane Morris. “We are excited to welcome him to the firm.”
International law firm Withers has bolstered its international arbitration practice in Asia with the hire of arbitration specialist Sherlin Tung as a Partner in its Hong Kong office.
This appointment is a continuation of Withers’ ongoing strategic expansion of its International Arbitration Group, which was established in 2014 and is headed by Hussein Haeri and Eleni Polycarpou in the firm’s London office. It follows the hiring of Emma Lindsay in New York and Soo Khim Keoy in Hong Kong, bringing to 11 the number of partners in the International Arbitration Group.
DWF, the global legal business, has appointed James Drury-Smith as partner and UK national leader of Privacy and Cyber Security.
James joins DWF from PwC where he was the UK leader for the non-contentious data protection legal practice and the UK leader for the financial services data protection legal practice.
James qualified as a solicitor in 2005 and has been a member of the data protection practices of Pinsent Masons (where he trained) and DLA Piper before joining Barclays Bank to become its group privacy legal counsel in 2009.
Sidley is pleased to announce that Joshua Thompson has joined the firm in New York as a partner in its Global Finance group. Mr. Thompson was previously a partner at Shearman & Sterling LLP, where he was head of the firm’s Global Leveraged Finance group and head of Private Capital.