The new outfit will be led by the firm’s former Singapore litigation, insolvency and restructuring head.

The firm has added a Department of Justice lawyer with 18 years of agency experience to its Washington, DC, arm.

Michael Lacovara has joined Freshfields’ New York litigation practice in after 25 years at Sullivan & Cromwell. Joining as partner, Lacovara is experienced in a range of commercial matters including antitrust, tax and tort disputes in over 30 US states and 10 federal circuit courts and has advised on matters before regulators and tribunals in […]

Lord Justice Hooper’s retirement from the Court of Appeal opens a new career within a white-collar criminal law boutique – but one with a novel partnership.

A key disputes hire by one of the Baltic states’ largest law firms accents the importance of both litigation and arbitration not just to Lithuania, but across the region.

Ashurst has hired Iain Travers to its real estate dispute resolution group after practising for 38 years at Nabarro. Formerly head of Nabarro’s real estate dispute resolution team, Travers will join the firm as partner in Ashurst’s  London office and advises on contentious property issues including rent review, dilapidations and a range of contractual and […]

Following the UK government reshuffle, the Ministry of Justice has allocated portfolios to ministers new and old, with civil justice handed to the sole solicitor MP in the department.

A sequence of Australian general counsel moves is likely to accentuate the interest taken by litigators in their banking colleagues, particularly those pitching for Australasian and Asian work. Ray Moses has been appointed as regional counsel for MFS Investment Management. Moses was previously at ANZ Wealth, from where the chair of the 2012 corporate lawyers […]

 

Hogan Lovells’ appetite for IP litigation hires has continued this week, with five partners joining the firm’s Californian disputes groups. The arrival from Haynes & Boone of a four-partner team – Edward Kwok, Jennifer Lantz, Steve Levitan and Clark Stone – in Silicon Valley is coupled with partner Christian Mammem, who has joined the firms’ […]

Holland & Knight has added Mark Flessner to its Chicago litigation practice group after being poached from SNR Denton. Flessner, who will join the firm as a partner, has experience in investigations into corporate wrongdoing and has brought more than 40 cases to verdict and over 35 cases to appellate level in his trial career, […]

London-listed Churchill Mining has hired dispute resolution specialist Nicholas Smith as its new managing director ahead of its ICSID arbitration with Indonesia.

Bryan Cave has hired trade dispute specialist Iain Sharp as partner in its Singapore arbitration team and commercial litigation client service group, fortifying its presence in Asia. Sharp has exited the shipping and trade  practice of leading insurance firm, Kennedys, where his specialities as a full service disputes lawyer, included  litigation, negotiation and ADR, including […]

Osborne Clarke has recruited international arbitration expert Greg Fullelove to join its dispute resolution team as partner. Fullelove was a senior associate at Freshfields in London from 2000 to 2012, and a member of its international arbitration and public international law group. He also worked in the magic circle firm’s Madrid office. He has particular […]