DLA Piper has strengthened its regulatory and compliance offering with the appointment of Stephen Wong as partner in its Litigation and Regulatory practice, based in Hong Kong. Stephen’s appointment is effective immediately.
Global law firm Dentons continues to strengthen its Corporate practice in Germany with two senior hires. At the start of the new year, Dr. Robert Weber will join the Frankfurt office as a partner to extend the Firm’s capabilities in stock corporation law. Counsel Claudia Otto recently joined to boost Dentons’ offering in the area of blockchain and digital technology.
Dubai based John Podgore, a recognised expert in international oil & gas transactions and energy-focused projects, is the latest partner to join AG's burgeoning global Construction, Energy and Infrastructure (CEI) practice, one of the firm's key investment priorities. Mr Podgore, who will be based in AG's Dubai office, was most recently general counsel at the MENA Energy Group, prior to that he spent over fifteen years in private practice, ten of those as a partner in Dubai.
Eversheds Sutherland has hired Sarah Maylor as partner within the construction practice, the fifth construction practice partner appointment in the last 18 months. She will join the team in January 2020.
The planning and environment team at Shoosmiths has been given a further boost with the appointment of David Mathias, a lawyer with extensive planning, highways and compulsory purchase experience.
David’s appointment is seen as a key hire in expanding the firm’s presence regionally from the office in Manchester, and also nationally. He is one of a number of new partner hires over the past year, including Karen Howard and Fraser Mitchell into the planning and environment team, as well as Paul Alger and Choisanne Man into the wider real estate team.
Global law firm Ropes & Gray announced that Martin Q. “Marty” Ruhaak has joined the firm in Chicago as a partner in the firm’s preeminent private equity transactions practice group.
With more than a decade of experience as a transactional lawyer, Mr. Ruhaak combines legal acumen with business savvy to guide market-leading firms on their most business-critical transactions. He focuses on mergers and acquisitions, dispositions, leveraged buyouts, equity and debt financing, restructurings, and recapitalizations for private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies.
Pillsbury has added Keith Ranta as a partner in the firm’s growing Executive Compensation & Benefits practice. Ranta, who was previously with Cooley, will work closely with the firm’s East Coast Corporate lawyers and will be based in the firm’s Washington, DC and Northern Virginia offices.
Global law firm Goodwin announced that Kris Bieker joined the firm’s Life Sciences practice as partner in the Boston office.
Marc-Sebastian will be part of the Disputes & Risk practice group. He previously worked as a Salary Partner for Taylor Wessing in the practice area of Projects, Energy & Infrastructure in Hamburg.
Ince Dubai announces the hiring of two partners and one senior lawyer as it strengthens and expands its service offering and collaborative work with other international offices.
Rabih Tabbara joins the firm as a Partner in December and Alastair Holland will join as a Partner in January from Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle and Wesley Wood as a Senior Shipping Associate joined last month.