Herbert Smith promotes 18 lawyers to partnership

Herbert Smith has promoted 18 lawyers to the partnership, bringing their worldwide partner numbers to 272. Senior partner David Gold said: “I congratulate our new partners. Together with the strong sector expertise and international experience that will support our strategic progress, they bring to the partnership that distinctive spread of contentious and transactional capability for which we are well known. “We’ve enjoyed a good start to 2010, as demonstrated by our top ranking in the first-quarter M&A league tables and the string of high-calibre partners we’ve recruited over the last few months. This latest intake of talent into the partnership will help maintain our momentum and provides further grounds for our confidence in the future.” The details of the new partners are as follows: London Hammad Akhtar, insurance (non-contentious) Karen Anderson, financial services regulatory and litigation Susannah Cogman, corporate crime and contentious regulatory Steve Dalton, energy Kim Dietzel, EU/competition Jeremy Garson, general commercial litigation Nik Kiri, financial services regulatory and litigation Chris Parker, arbitration Simon Tysoe, energy Tim West, investment funds John Whiteoak, contentious restructuring and insolvency Paris Nina Bowyer, energy Emmanuelle Cabrol, arbitration Erwan Poisson, general dispute resolution Asia Gavin Margetson, general dispute resolution, Tokyo Lewis McDonald, energy, Singapore Paul Scarr, general corporate, Abu Dhabi May Tai, arbitration, Shanghai

Herbert Smith promotes 18 lawyers to partnership thelawyer.com Fri, Apr 23, 2010