Stephen Denyer has been appointed regional managing partner responsible for Allen & Overy's offices in Frankfurt, Prague, Budapest and Warsaw. He had previously been head of the firm's central European practice based out of the firm's Warsaw office. He will be transferring full-time to Frankfurt at the start of May.
HK man heads west
Mitch Gitin, the head of Baker & McKenzie’s US securities practice in Hong Kong, has been transferred to the firm’s London office to boost its central and east European securities practice. The firm now has a team of five US securities lawyers based in London. Gitin joined the firm in 1992 from US firm Skadden […]