DLA Piper has confirmed its second office in Saudi Arabia will open in Jeddah this year, with plans to launch a third by the end of 2015. The firm announced its second Middle East base will be headed by legal director Rakesh Bassi, who joined from Clifford Chance last year. The proposed third office will […]
Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) has hired its first female partner in Germany, K&L Gates banking and finance partner Julia Müller. Müller, who was based in K&L Gates’ Frankfurt office, had been at the firm for almost three years, having joined from White & Case in 2012 where she was a partner for 10 years. When […]
Fieldfisher is facing a €120,000 (£86,000) unfair dismissal claim brought by a former secretary in its Paris office, who claims that she was assaulted by the firm’s office managing partner on the day of her dismissal. There was a preliminary hearing in the case before an employment tribunal in Paris on Monday (13 April) with […]
This year’s European Managing Partner of the Year, Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners’ chairman Dimitry Afanasiev, opens up about the challenges affecting Russia and Ukraine. Over the last two decades the Russian legal market has become one of the most competitive in the world, with international firms piling in in the early 1990s following the […]
White & Case’s Budapest office is joining Dentons next month in a major boost for the expanding firm’s Central & Eastern European (CEE) operations. The entirety of the 50-strong office, including local partners, associates and other staff is moving to Dentons on 3 May, including partners Rob Irving, Edward Keller and István Réczicza. The move […]
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom and Sullivan & Cromwell have taken the lead roles on Nokia’s €15.6bn (£11.2bn) acquisition of French telecoms company Alcatel-Lucent, announced this morning. Skadden is advising Nokia alongside Finnish firm Roschier, while Sullivan & Cromwell has picked up the legal work for Alcatel-Lucent on the deal. Latham & Watkins is […]
Chadbourne & Parke has recruited corporate partner Andrei Baev from Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) as its new Moscow managing partner. Baev will split his time between London and Moscow, as he has done previously. He joined BLP in late 2011 from Allen & Overy and spent the past three years working both from the UK and […]
Chadbourne & Parke has recruited corporate partner Andrei Baev from Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) as its new Moscow managing partner. Baev will split his time between London and Moscow, as he has done previously. He joined BLP in late 2011 from Allen & Overy and spent the past three years working both from the UK […]
Austrian firm Wolf Theiss has hired longstanding Allen & Overy (A&O) partner Jan Myska as a partner in its Prague office. Myška was a partner at A&O for the last 13 years and led its corporate practice in the Czech Republic. He advises on a range of corporate and commercial transactions with a specialist focus […]
Middle East firm Al Tamimi & Company has expanded its presence in Saudi Arabia to Jeddah with the hire of a former Baker Botts lawyer. The new office is led by Sumit Soni, who joined Al Tamimi earlier this year. He was previously a special counsel at Baker Botts in Riyadh. Al Tamimi’s Jeddah office […]
Allen & Overy (A&O) has made its first South African partner-level lateral hire since launching in the jurisdiction last year, picking up projects partner Jason van der Poel from Linklaters’ ally Webber Wentzel. Van der Poel previously worked at A&O in Amsterdam in the firm’s banking and capital markets group between 2002 and 2005, before […]
McDermott Will & Emery has continued the growth of its Paris office with the hire of three private equity partners from Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle. The arrival of Henri Pieyre de Mandiargues, Carole Degonse and Grégoire Andrieux is the latest stage in the rapid expansion of McDermott’s Paris office since its launch in 2011 […]