Stanbrook & Hooper has poached Baker & McKenzie senior associate Walter Verstrepen to head up its EU transport department.
Verstrepen, who worked at Baker & McKenzie’s Antwerp office specialises in shipping and transport law and international trade.
“This move provides me with the opportunity to work in a broader international environment and within a firm that has a rapidly growing EU transport department,” he said.
UBS plug sees Dewey make first German lateral
Dewey Ballantine is taking on its first German lateral following a recommendation from investment bank UBS. Philipp von Ilberg, a capital markets and corporate finance lawyer, is moving to the US firm from Clifford Chance Pünder, which he joined in 1997 before becoming a partner in 2001. Von Ilberg is the firm’s first German hire […]