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 […]
Hogan Lovells has launched an office in Australia with the hire of partners Nicky Lester and Tim Lester from Linklaters’ best friend firm Allens. Hogan Lovells CEO Steve Immelt said that the firm’s Australia launch is focused on an offering that would complement its multi-jurisdictional practice rather than a domestic Australian practice. [continues] Also on […]
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and Swiss firm Niederer Kraft & Frey have advised BSI, the first Swiss bank to reach a deal with the US Department of Justice (DoJ) over allegations of helping clients evade tax. The DoJ announced yesterday (30 March) that the private bank had become the first to reach a resolution […]
Hashi Mohamed of No5 Chambers, acting on behalf of Lincolnshire County Council, appeared in an appeal against a decision of East Lindsey District Council to refuse planning permission for the installation and operation of a wind energy scheme comprising nine wind turbines and ancillary infrastructure. In this recovered appeal, the infrastructure project was due to stand for a […]
Best friends Bonelli Erede Pappalardo and Slaughter and May have advised on opposite sides of Dufry’s €1.3bn (£950m) acquisition of shares in rival World Duty Free from the Benetton family, in a deal that creates the world’s biggest travel retailer. Slaughter and May finance partner Matthew Tobin led the team advising Swiss duty free operator […]
Former Olswang arbitration head Andrew Aglionby has joined arbitration provider JAMS International as an arbitrator and mediator in London and New York, ditching plans to join the bar. Aglionby announced he would leave Olswang in November 2014 to return to chambers after four years at the firm, citing conflict of interest issues (11 November 2014). […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has continued to bolster its Asian practice by hiring from magic circle rival Linklaters, this time taking a Beijing banking and finance partner for its Hong Kong office. The addition of energy specialist Thomas Ng comes after Freshfields hired Linklaters securities partner David Ludwick earlier this month (13 March 2015). He also […]
Hogan Lovells has launched an office in Australia with the hire of partners Nicky Lester and Tim Lester from Linklaters’ best friend firm Allens. The firm’s Australian operations will be run from Perth and Sydney. Nicky Lester will spearhead the firm’s banking and finance practice, and Tim Lester will lead the corporate finance practice for the firm with […]