Bringing you the latest moves from some of the biggest players in our markets!
Schoenherr appoints arbitration lawyer Leon Kopecky as counsel in their Vienna office. Kopecky gained previous experience in international commercial and investment arbitration, international litigation, and compliance matters.
Paul Hastings welcomes new Corporate Practice Partner Luke McDougall to their office in London. McDougall specializes in cross-border acquisitions finance, leveraged finance and restructuring, furthermore he was named ‘Rising Star’ of the legal profession by finance news in their February edition of ’40 under 40’.
Ebay hires Marie Oh Huber as new General Counsel to prepare for the split of PayPal and Ebay into two separate companies. Huber joins from equipment manufacturer Agilent, where she has been Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary since 2009.
Pekin & Pekin announces a new partner and a new leadership team within their Practice group. Mr. Y. Özge Okat and Ceyda Tapşın have both been promoted to Partner and will enhance the teams’ current strong position in the market.
Hogan Lovells expands its antitrust offering with the hiring of new Partner Eric Paroche who will be joing their Paris office. Paroche has previous experience in EU and Competition law as well as experience in merger investigations, cartel cases and antitrust counselling.
Osborne Clarke appoints Eléonore Varet to their Paris office as Counsel, bringing 10 years of experience in information technology and computer law and two post-master degrees in law and business management.
Ashurst introduces 20 new Partners across a variety of legal specialties including Banking, Real Estate, Regulatory and Securities and Derivatives, Competition, Employment, Infrastructure and Restructuring. The Partners will be joining teams in Paris, London Sydney and Singapore.
Varul announces that Latvian attorney Vita Liberte has taken over the firm’s Latvia office as of March 1, 2015. Liberte’s appointment as Managing Partner of Varul Latvia “is based on the rotation of management of Varul Baltics promoting continuous growth of the firm.”
bpv Jadi Nemeth hires Hungarian Competition Marton Horanyi from Baker & McKenzie to lead the firm’s Competition & Antitrust Practice. With over a decade of experience, Marton specializes in Hungarian and EU competition law and has significant experience in representing major Hungarian and multi-national companies in cartel, abuse of dominance and merger cases before the Hungarian Competition Office, the European Commission and the Hungarian and EU Courts. He has special expertise in particular in the pharmaceutical, retail, energy, IT/telecom and automotive industries.
Squire Patton Boggs welcomes Pensions practice Partner Judith Donnelly to their office in London. Donnelly specializes in advising clients on investment, governance hedge funds, private equity funds and infrastructure funds.
