Jeantet Associés and Linklaters have landed roles on a French deal creating a new European transport giant. A team at Jeantet led by competition partners Loraine Donnedieu de Vabres-Tranié and Thomas Picot worked alongside French sole practitioner Patrice Gassenbach to advise Veolia Environnement on the proposed joint venture with the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations […]
Howrey competition specialist Damien Geradin has become the latest partner to leave the firm after joining the Brussels office of US outfit Covington & Burling. Geradin joins the firm as a partner in its global antitrust and competition practice, focusing on competition and IP matters. Previous clients have included Microsoft and telecoms company Qualcomm. Covington’s […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has scooped Pervez Akhtar from magic circle rival Allen & Overy, making him its new Middle East corporate head . Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has scooped corporate rainmaker Pervez Akhtar from magic circle rival Allen & Overy, making him its new Middle East corporate head . Akhtar rejoined A&O last year (20 March […]
Swedish firm Vinge has boosted its Brussels office with a competition lawyer from Howrey, two months after four partners left the US firm’s Belgium base. Kristian Hugmark, a senior associate at Howrey’s Brussels office, will join Vinge at the end of the year. He will be the firm’s resident partner in Brussels and lead a […]
Clifford Chance competition lawyer Tony Reeves has been elected as the firm’s new Brussels managing partner. Reeves, currently head of the firm’s European competition and regulation group in Brussels, will succeed Yves Herinckx, who has been the Brussels managing partner for 14 years. Herinckx is expected to stand down from his role next month and […]
Austrian firm Wolf Theiss is advising a Slovakian student in a defamation case against three Viennese newspapers after her photo was mistakenly used in a story about a murdered prostitute. Three of Austria’s daily newspapers – Heute, Kronen Zeitung and Österreich – used photographs from the Facebook page of 22-year-old Slovakian Student Lucie R to […]
Baker & McKenzie today opens its 68th office, launching a base in Luxembourg as it looks to capitalise on the expected boom in investment fund activity in the country. The new office will be staffed by all 15 lawyers from Luxembourg firm Findling Collin Fessmann (FCF), which will cease to operate, along with five tax […]
Danish firm Danders & More has merged with Copenhagen transaction boutique NSR Advokatfirma. M&A firm NSR Advokatfirma will operate under the Danders & More name and relocate to its premises on 1 October, in a move that is hoped will strengthen Danders & More’s position in both local and international markets. NSR’s entire nine-lawyer team […]
Clifford Chance has elected Spain real estate head Alfonso Benavides as head of its global real estate practice. Benavides is a member of the firm’s partner selection group (PSG), a role that he will relinquish on commencing a four-year term as global property chief on 1 September 2010. He takes over from Cliff McAuley, who […]
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has hired a corporate partner from Hogan Lovells in Moscow. Suren Gortsunyan will join Akin Gump as a partner in the international corporate transactions practice. Gortsunyan advises on M&A and capital markets transaction, joint ventures and corporate restructurings. He joined legacy firm Lovells from White & Case, where he […]
Herbert Smith’s Moscow practice has turned to Gide Loyrette Nouel for the hire of its first dedicated infrastructure partner as the firm predicts a rush in projects over the coming years. Olga Revzina, who is head of Gide’s PPP group in Russia, will join the firm along with associate Maria Minskova. Revzina’s start date is […]
SJ Berwin’s co-head of arbitration David Goldberg is set to join White & Case’s London office next month. Goldberg, who led SJ Berwin’s Russia desk, will join White & Case’s international arbitration group and is expected to spend a large proportion of his time in Moscow as the US firm continues to build its presence […]