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.

With the official launch of a disputes practice in New York, Herbert Smith and its Australian partner Freehills continue their momentum ahead of an October merger.

International firm Pinsent Masons will open its second office in Europe with a team of partners in Paris including arbitration lawyer Nathalie Sinavong. A French-qualified attorney, Sinavong will head the firm’s litigation and arbitration department. She has experience in cross-border litigation and international arbitration, having advised a major European car manufacturer in the successive reorganisation […]

Former chief executive of the Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority, Ian Drennan, has been named head of the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement, the country’s business compliance watchdog. Drennan’s appointment was announced by Irish minister for jobs, enterprise and innovation, Richard Bruton on 28 August, and took effect the following day. He […]

Tax litigator Alexei Panich has joined Herbert Smith in Moscow, where he will sit as a partner in the firm’s global disputes practice. Formerly head of Salans’ Moscow disputes practice and co-head of the Russian taxation group, Panich will join a Herbert Smith team that includes partner Vladimir Melnikov and of counsel Francesca Albert, as […]

Global arbitration office King & Spalding has hired Erika Serran Toussaint to act as counsel in its Houston office. Toussaint will join the firm’s global disputes practice dealing with international investment treaties and cross-border commercial issues operating within the US and abroad. Toussaint relocated to Houston from Washington, DC in 2011 where she worked as […]

Orrick has recruited litigation lawyer Christina Guerola Sarchio as a partner in its commercial litigation practice in New York and Washington, DC. Formerly partner and co-chair of the government institutions and litigation practice group at Patton Boggs, Sarchio practices commercial litigation, antitrust and white-collar criminal defence matters. From 2000 to 2008, she was a litigation […]

US firm Baker Botts is launching a European competition practice in Brussels to be led by former Hogan Lovells partner Catriona Hatton. As counsel in Hogan Lovell’s Brussels office, Hatton practiced EU and competition law, as well as data protection and regulatory affairs, for over 15 years, advising on EU and national competition law specific […]

Irish firm William Fry has officially announced the promotion of four associates to partner in its Dublin office including Richard Breen, a specialist in dispute resolution, and competition lawyer Claire Waterson. Richard Breen advises national and multinational state agencies and institutional clients on dispute resolution at mediations and arbitrations on a domestic and international level, […]

The Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange (DGCX) has appointed international commercial arbitrator Abdul Wahid Al Ulama as non-executive director. An Emirati national, Al Ulama is one of the most prominent figures in the Dubai dispute resolution and commercial law spheres. As an arbitrator he has sat on panels of the ICC Court of Arbitration and […]

The speaker of Kenya’s national assembly, Kenneth Marende, has honoured dispute resolution lawyer Bill Inamdar, who died this week at the age of 82.

 

Former Citibank and JPMorgan general counsel Paul Kaplan has joined Locke Lord’s litigation and antitrust practice group in New York, where he will sit as a partner. Kaplan, previously a partner at Alston & Bird in Manhattan, advises on antitrust regulation in mergers and acquisitions and has 25 years litigation experience in litigation, having acted […]