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12 MANAGING CAREERS
PEOPLE
UK
LONDON
#Bryan Cave has recruited Ian Williams as
counsel in its London restructuring group. He
was formerly the head of Geldards’ insolvency
group.
#Jones Day has expanded its London
litigation practice with the appointment of real
estate litigation partner Richard Anyamene,
who joins from the London office of LG, where
he was a partner in the firm’s real estate
litigation team.
#New York-based Cleary Gottlieb Steen &
Hamilton partner Jonathan Blackman has
relocated to the firm’s London office to boost
the City litigation team.
#Corporate lawyer Adam Penny has joined
Brown Rudnick as a partner in London. He was
previously a director in the M&A group at Credit
Suisse.
SOUTH
#South East firm ASB Law has taken on tax
associate Estelle Tague from Mayfair private
client firm Gordon Dadds.
NORTH
#Helen Kernot has joined Napthens as an
assistant in its Blackpool wills and estate team.
She left Lytham firm Coupe Bradbury Solicitors
to take up the role.
SCOTLAND
#Construction lawyer Jennifer Young, a partner
at Ledingham Chalmers in Aberdeen, has been
appointed as a member of the board of governors
at the city’s Robert Gordon University.
EUROPE
#Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel has boosted
its Paris office with two new partners. Luc Saucier
joins the corporate team from Paul Hastings,
while competition associate Marco
Plankensteiner is promoted to partner.
#Austrian firm Schoenherr has announced
that partner Peter Feyl and senior associate
Andreas Baumann are to head its new-look tax
practice.
#Ireland’s McCann FitzGerald has promoted
Aiden Small to of counsel in its banking and
financial services department.
ASIA AND
MIDDLE EAST
#Hogan & Hartson has recruited corporate
counsel Charles Kelly in Abu Dhabi. He joins from
Reed Smith.
#Veteran Vinson & Elkins partner Gary Kotara
has relocated from Dubai to Hong Kong to work in
the energy and projects practice.
#Latham & Watkins finance partner Philipp
von Randow has relocated to Doha in Qatar from
Frankfurt.
#Herbert Smith has rehired former corporate
Blackaby: takes control of the US arbitration group
Kotara: moves to Vinson & Elkins’ Hong Kong energy and projects practice
partner Jeremy Xiao, who left for Credit Suisse in
2007, as a consultant.
US
#Former Time Warner vice-president and
chief patent counsel Charles Fish has joined
Chadbourne & Park as counsel in New York.
#Edward O’Callaghan, a former assistant US attorney
for the Southern District of New York, has joined
Nixon Peabody as a partner in its government
investigations and white-collar defence practice in
New York. Prior to this he was a senior adviser in
John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign.
#The Miami office of K&L Gates has taken on
Richard Winston as a partner in the tax and
corporate practices. Winston joins K&L Gates
from Hughes Hubbard & Reed.
OFFSHORE
#Harney Westwood & Riegels has appointed
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THE WEEK
#Freshfields Bruckhaus
Deringer has appointed
partner Nigel Blackaby as head
of the firm’s US arbitration
group. Blackaby recently
relocated to the US from Paris
and will be responsible for
managing and developing the
arbitration group’s New York
and Washington DC presences,
which consist of partners Lucy
Reed, Brian King and Alex
Yanos. The group is also home
to 20 full-time associates.
Small: makes of counsel at McCann FitzGerald
Sarah Dobbyn as head of litigation and insolvency
in the Cayman Islands. She was previously a
partner at the firm’s office in the British Virgin
Islands.
#Carey Olsen has boosted its Jersey corporate
team by promoting Guy Coltman to partner. Before
joining the firm Coltman worked in the London
office of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom.
Dobbyn: Cayman role at Harney
Coltman: makes partner at Carey Olsen
THE BAR/BENCH
THE LAWYER
23 MARCH 2009
Baumann: co-head of Schoenherr’s tax group
#The Judicial Appointments Commission
has appointed Nigel Richardson, partner and
head of crime at Hodge Jones & Allen, as a
deputy district judge in the Magistrates’ Courts.
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