Global law firm Reed Smith today announces the hire of Nina Howell as partner in its Energy & Natural Resources Group and London office. Howell joins the firm with over 20 years’ experience advising clients across the energy industry. She has a particular focus on the LNG sector, representing clients across the LNG supply chain globally, from the financing and development of LNG import and export projects to LNG sales, marketing, trading and transportation. Howell also brings with her two decades of experience of upstream joint ventures, unitization, M&A and other energy related corporate transactions, across several continents. She joins the firm from King & Spalding where she was partner prior to joining Reed Smith.

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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that David Irvine has joined the firm’s Global Finance Practice Group as a partner in London. He will serve as Co-Chair of Global Finance (Europe). Irvine arrives at the firm from Linklaters.

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Mark Simpson has joined Cooley as a partner in the firm’s London antitrust and competition investigations and disputes practice. Simpson advises on all aspects of UK and European Union competition law, with a focus on high-profile contentious matters – including competition litigation, investigations and regulatory challenges, and alternative dispute resolution, as well as merger law control and cartel damages actions. He has dealt with multiple matters before the English High Court, the Competition Appeal Tribunal and the European Court of Justice. Simpson arrives from Norton Rose Fulbright, where he was head of antitrust and competition.

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International law firm McDermott Will & Emery welcomes Fatema Orjela as a partner in its Transactions Practice Group in London. Fatema’s practice focuses on private equity transactions and related advisory matters. Orjela joins McDermott from Sidley Austin LLP.

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Global law firm White & Case LLP has expanded its Global Debt Finance Practice, and its financial institutions and private equity global industry groups, with the addition of Lauren Winter as a partner in London. Winter arrives at the firm from Paul Hastings.

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Akin is pleased to announce that Jacqueline Ingram joins the firm’s London office as a partner in its market-leading financial restructuring practice. Jacquie joins Akin from Milbank.

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King & Spalding announced today that international employment lawyer Tessa Cranfield has joined the firm as a partner in its Global Human Capital and Compliance Practice. Cranfield joins the firm’s London office. Cranfield joins the firm from the London office of Seyfarth Shaw.

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