People and firms

Arish Bharucha has left disputes boutique Cooke Young & Keidan to join the partnership at another London firm, Howard Kennedy, where he will head its India practice.

19 May 2021

Corporate and commercial law disputes specialist Judith Sawang has left Frankfurt-based boutique Wendelstein to join the partnership at Ashurst – which has also promoted two new partners in London and Singapore.

18 May 2021

Michael Darowski has joined the partnership at McDermott Will & Emery in London after four years at Gowling WLG, bringing experience acting in a multibillion-dollar dispute with Iran’s national oil company.

17 May 2021

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has launched a new office in Miami with a ten-lawyer team including David Orta, chair of the firm’s US and Latin America international arbitration practices, who has relocated from Washington, DC.

13 May 2021

Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle partner Simon Batifort will relocate from New York to Brussels to establish a new office for the firm “in the capital of Europe”.

12 May 2021

CMS has promoted Tom Christopher Pröstler to partner and Evgenia Peiffer and Philipp Pohlmann to counsel in Germany and Hong Kong.

12 May 2021

Amy Kläsener has left her role as Dentons’ head of arbitration in Germany to join Jones Day in Frankfurt.

11 May 2021

DLA Piper has promoted Kiera Gans in New York and Cameron Scholes in Sydney to the partnership – while Zach Song has joined as of counsel in Singapore from CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang.

11 May 2021

Sachin Trikha has joined the partnership at Clifford Chance in London, while the firm has also promoted counsel in Paris and Sydney.

10 May 2021

Bernhard Maier has joined Signature Litigation as counsel in London from Squire Patton Boggs, having helped states such as Slovakia, Kenya and Barbados to prevail in investment treaty disputes.

10 May 2021