People and firms

Sabrina Aïnouz and Jérôme Lehucher, who spent a decade working together at Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle, have joined the partnership at Squire Patton Boggs in Paris.

08 October 2020

Brazilian national Luiz Aboim has left White & Case to join the partnership at Mayer Brown in London, bringing experience of disputes in Portuguese-speaking countries in Latin America and Africa.

07 October 2020

Swiss firm Bär & Karrer has promoted international arbitration practitioners Cinzia Catelli and Pascal Hachem to the partnership in Zurich.

06 October 2020

The former head of international arbitration at CMS, Dorothee Ruckteschler, is leaving the firm after almost three decades to practice as an independent arbitrator in Stuttgart.

05 October 2020

Shearman & Sterling has promoted two senior associates who have worked on a series of high-profile investment and commercial disputes to counsel in Paris.

05 October 2020

Nicholas Tse has left his role as Brown Rudnick’s head of international arbitration to lead the practice at Alem and Associates – the Lebanese firm acting alongside him in the closely-watched Kebab-Ji case before the UK Supreme Court.

02 October 2020

Russian firm Ivanyan & Partners has hired James Dingley from Clifford Chance in London as it prepares to open its first international office in the UK capital.

01 October 2020

Sir Nigel Teare has retired as the lead judge in London's Commercial Court – a role which has seen him rule on many high-profile arbitration-related cases – to join the arbitrator wing at Quadrant Chambers.

30 September 2020

Geoffrey Cox QC, the former Attorney General who advised the UK government on Brexit, has joined the arbitration and litigation team at Withers.

29 September 2020

Michelle Glassman Bock, who has acted in over a dozen gas price review proceedings, has left WilmerHale to join the partnership at Squire Patton Boggs.

29 September 2020