Christophe Jacomin joins Jeantet as a partner along with his team to strengthen the firm’s banking and financial activities both in France and abroad.

International law firm Pinsent Masons has further enhanced its commercial litigation, regulatory and tax litigation practice with the appointment of Andrew Sackey as a contentious tax partner in its London office. Andrew will work with clients across each of the firm's five key global sectors – Energy, Infrastructure, Financial Services, Real Estate and Advanced Manufacturing & Technology.

Dentons continues to bolster its Global Venture Technology practice with the appointment of Sergio Legorreta in Mexico City as head of Mexico´s Venture Technology Practice and co-chair of Dentons’ Venture Technology Practice in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Oliver Dreher focuses on debt capital markets law and Dr. Axel Schlieter specializes in project and acquisition finance

Global law firm Dentons has expanded its presence in banking and capital markets law with the recruitment of two new partners: Oliver Dreher will head the German Debt Capital Markets (DCM) team from Frankfurt, while Dr. Axel Schlieter will anchor the Banking and Finance practice in the newly opened Dusseldorf office.

Dentons today welcomes competition and consumer partner, Elizabeth Sarofim, further enhancing the Firm’s offering for clients.

Elizabeth has experience in advising clients on competition law issues in a wide range of industries and regularly advises both domestic and international clients on their rights and obligations under the Australian Competition and Consumer Act.

Arrival of Steve Curtis further enhances the firm's infrastructure and real estate capabilities in the City.

Latham & Watkins is pleased to announce that Steve Curtis will join the firm’s London office as a partner in the Finance Department. Highly regarded in his field, Curtis’ practice focuses on a broad range of structured finance transactions, with particular expertise in the regulated utility, infrastructure and real estate sectors and in complex corporate securitisations.

The ever-expanding intellectual property team at Shoosmiths Birmingham has hired its latest partner, an expert in national and international trade mark work. Dominic Murphy is the team’s eighth new recruit in recent years and follows hot on the heels of the appointment of partner, Victoria Bentley, who specialises in connected technology and complex high tech patent litigation.

Bird & Bird is pleased to announce that recognised trade mark specialist Frederik Thiering is set to join as a partner in its Hamburg office in the new year.

Mayer Brown announced that fund finance lawyer Aimee Sharman has joined its Banking & Finance practice in London as a partner, where she is also a member of the firm’s global fund finance team. Aimee was previously at Hogan Lovells.

TLT has expanded its UK-wide employment team with the appointment of Liz Cotton, employment partner and retail specialist, in Manchester.

She was previously head of employment at JMW and joins a growing team at TLT which operates across all three UK legal jurisdictions of England & Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.