Dentons Recruits Leading UK Real Estate Investment Partner

Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Dentons is pleased to announce that Bonnie Calnan is to join the London Real Estate team as a partner. Her arrival will further strengthen the practice following a period of significant growth, including the recruitment of five partners from Irwin Mitchell in 2016, the addition of Maclay Murray & Spens’ real estate practice in 2017 and last year’s hire of development and transactional specialist Deepa Deb, also from BCLP. More >>

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Dr. Thomas Helck Joins White & Case as a Partner in Frankfurt

Monday, March 4, 2019

Global law firm White & Case LLP has expanded its Global White Collar Practice with the addition of Dr. Thomas Helck as a partner in the Frankfurt office. He joins White & Case from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, where he was counsel, and previously worked for five years as a public prosecutor in Munich, prosecuting a wide range of white collar cases including market manipulations, insider trading and tax fraud. More >>

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Squire Patton Boggs Adds Leading International Arbitration Lawyer in New York

Friday, March 1, 2019

Miriam Harwood has joined Squire Patton Boggs as a partner in the firm’s International Dispute Resolution (IDR) practice group and as Co-Head of Investment Arbitration, based in New York. She joins from Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle, where she practiced for over 25 years, specializing in international commercial and investment treaty arbitration. More >>

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Mayer Brown Expands Corporate & Securities Practice With Addition of Steven Tran as Partner in Hong Kong

Friday, March 1, 2019

Mayer Brown is pleased to announce the expansion of its Corporate & Securities practice with the arrival of Steven Tran as a partner in Hong Kong. Mr. Tran, who was previously a partner at Kirkland & Ellis and was most recently a partner at Hogan Lovells, is an accomplished private equity and M&A lawyer who has been based in Asia for nearly 20 years. He represents private equity funds, major financial institutions and corporations in a wide variety of complex multi-jurisdictional deals throughout the Asia-Pacific region. More >>

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Latham & Watkins To Add Prominent Employment Law Partner in Munich

Friday, March 1, 2019

Latham & Watkins is pleased to announce that Anne Kleffmann will join the Munich office as a partner in the Litigation & Trial Department and member of the Benefits, Compensation & Employment Practice. Kleffmann regularly advises leading companies and private equity firms on a variety of individual and collective employment law matters, with a particular focus on restructurings and reorganizations and M&A. Kleffmann will join the firm from Watson Farley & Williams. Kleffmann graduated from the University of Münster. More >>

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