People and firms

Korean firm Lee & Ko has promoted Bami Yoo and Elizabeth Shin to the partnership – the fourth and fifth female practitioners in a row to be made partner in its international arbitration team.

23 March 2023

David Attanasio, who recently helped a Hungarian oil and gas group win a US$237 million award against Croatia, has been promoted to counsel at Dechert in Washington, DC.

21 March 2023

Luis O'Naghten has left the partnership at Hughes Hubbard & Reed to become head of international arbitration at Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough in Miami.

20 March 2023

Baker Botts has promoted New Zealand-qualified barrister and solicitor David Turner to special counsel in London.

20 March 2023

In a GAR Live keynote speech delivered before the news that India will open its doors to foreign lawyers, Justice Gautam Patel of the High Court of Bombay called out “fundamental flaws” in the country’s arbitration system, taking aim at the conduct of arbitration practitioners in the country and saying it was time to “burn down the house” in terms of how arbitration is perceived.

17 March 2023

Singapore firm Rajah & Tann has hired Vanina Sucharitkul, an academic and former Herbert Smith Freehills lawyer, as partner in its international arbitration practice.

16 March 2023

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has promoted Jagdish Menezes and Manthi Wickramasooriya to of counsel in London.

14 March 2023

Washington, DC, firm Wiley Rein has promoted Josh Simmons and Lukman Azeez to partner in its global disputes practice.

13 March 2023

Yarik Kryvoi, the director of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law’s Investment Treaty Forum, has joined London disputes and insolvency boutique Keidan Harrison as of counsel.

10 March 2023

UK-qualified barrister Jonathon Egerton-Peters has joined Steptoe & Johnson as a partner in London from Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom.

09 March 2023