King & Spalding has added competition partner Salomé Cisnal De Ugarte as partner in its Brussels office. She joins the firm’s Global Antitrust practice. Cisnal De Ugarte joins from Hogan Lovells, where she was a partner in the Antitrust and Competition group and served as Office Managing Partner.
Alston & Bird has bolstered its global anti-corruption compliance capabilities with the addition of Isabelle De Smedt as a partner in the firm’s Brussels office. Joining from Nixon Peabody LLP, De Smedt represents companies in anti-corruption and fraud investigations related to the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, UK Bribery Act, and other government enforcement programs worldwide.
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Elisabethann Wright has joined Cooley in Brussels as a partner in the firm’s growing business litigation and healthcare regulatory practice groups. Wright arrives from Hogan Lovells, where she co-led its European Union life sciences regulatory practice. She has more than 35 years of experience in private practice and international governmental organizations, including as a référandaire (law clerk) at the European Court of Justice and a senior legal officer at the European Free Trade Association Surveillance Authority.
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Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP today announced that prominent antitrust lawyer Dr. Jens-Olrik Murach will join Willkie’s Antitrust & Competition Group as a partner. Mr. Murach will be based in Willkie’s Brussels and Frankfurt offices. He was previously a partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.
International law firm McDermott Will & Emery today announced that Hendrik Viaene has joined the Firm’s international antitrust practice in Brussels as partner. He joins a dynamic, experienced and ambitious team, widely recognised for its outstanding credentials in defending multinational corporations in international cartels and regularly securing complex merger clearances in Europe. Hendrik joins from Deloitte Legal where he led the global Centre of Expertise in Competition and Regulatory Law.
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Mayer Brown today announced that it has expanded its Antitrust & Competition practice in Düsseldorf with the appointment of a team led by partners Christian Horstkotte and Dr. Johannes Weichbrodt. Both partners will join Mayer Brown from Baker McKenzie on January 1, 2021 with three associates.
Squire Patton Boggs continues the global expansion of its International Disputes Resolution (IDR) Practice with the addition of Michelle Glassman Bock, who joins the firm as a partner from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP. Splitting her time between the firm’s Brussels and Washington DC offices, Ms. Bock is the latest addition to the firm’s IDR practice, which has recently hired team members in New York, London, Singapore, Dubai, and Milan and consists of more than 140 practitioners across 20 countries.
Vassilis Akritidis, a leading international trade lawyer, is joining Crowell & Moring in Brussels, expanding the firm’s capability to provide global clients with strategic European trade advice. Akritidis and his team bring a broad trade practice, including experience in World Trade Organization law and proceedings, customs, and unfair trade litigation. Akritidis joins as a partner from DWF, where he led the International Trade and WTO practice and served as managing partner of that firm’s Brussels office.
Prominent cyber/data/privacy lawyer Patrick Van Eecke has joined Cooley as a partner in its Brussels office. Van Eecke arrives from DLA Piper, where he was co-chair of the firm’s global data privacy and cybersecurity practice. Joining him is a multinational team of data protection professionals from France, Spain and Latvia.
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