William Fry is pleased to announce the appointment of Brian Butterwick as a Partner to its Corporate / M&A Department. This senior appointment demonstrates the continued growth of the Firm in the last 12 months building on the Partner lateral hires of Lyn Brennan (Banking & Finance), Ian Devlin (Pensions), and John Aherne (Asset Management & Investment Funds).
Gide is pleased to announce the arrival of partners Caroline Lan and Jean-François Louit within its M&A practice. Caroline and Jean-Francois will join, with their team, with the aim of developing the practice area, which assists directors, managers, entrepreneurs and family shareholders.
Gide is pleased to announce the arrival of Sophie Scemla as partner in its Paris office. Along with her team, Sophie will strengthen Gide's White Collar Crime and Compliance & Corporate Investigations practices.
Drawing on over 20 years' experience in the fields of dispute resolution and white collar crime, Sophie Scemla is a recognised expert admitted to the Paris and New York Bars who specialises in preventing and managing criminal risks, combating international corruption, and leading corporate investigations.
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the premier provider of legal services to technology, life sciences, and growth enterprises worldwide, announced that Stacy Kim has joined the firm's corporate practice as a US-licensed partner in the London office.
LONDON – Global law firm Reed Smith today announced the arrival of life sciences transactional partner Iqbal Hussain to its Global Corporate Group in the firm’s London office. Iqbal’s practice centres around cross-border M&A, licensing, equity investments and joint venture transactions within the life sciences sector.
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Morrison & Foerster, a leading global law firm, is pleased to announce that Jon Ornolfsson, one of Asia’s leading energy lawyers, has joined the firm as a partner in its global Project Finance Group. Mr. Ornolfsson is a highly regarded practitioner who brings more than a decade of experience advising market-leading multinational and Asian clients on energy and infrastructure projects around the world. He has been practicing in Asia since 2007 and will split his time between Morrison & Foerster’s Singapore and Tokyo offices. Mr.
Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has appointed Edward Stone as a partner in the firm's London office, joining WBD's top-ranked private wealth team. He brings over 20 years' international experience at leading firms advising high net worth individuals, their families, trustees and family offices on wealth/succession planning and cross-jurisdictional asset structuring/restructuring.
International law firm Pinsent Masons has further enhanced its international life sciences and technology sector capabilities with the appointment of Nicole Jadeja in its London office.
Nicole will be joining from Fieldfisher, where she was the co-head of Life Sciences.
We are pleased to announce that we have enhanced our professional liability capabilities with the appointment of four partners and two associates across three of our UK offices.
Professional indemnity (PI) specialist Paul Castellani, who will be based in our London office, joins from RPC where he has been a partner for ten years. His appointment will enhance our London Market insurance practice.
Global, sector-focused law firm HFW is boosting its market-leading shipping practice with the hire of Singapore partner Christopher Metcalf.
Christopher is a dry shipping expert and is ranked by The Legal 500 and Chambers as one of Singapore's top shipping lawyers. He will join HFW in September from Clyde & Co, subject to local regulatory approvals.
This continues HFW's significant strengthening of its Singapore shipping practice, following the recent hire of renowned former shipbroker Chris Jones and the hire of ship finance partner Siri Wennevik in 2018.