People and firms

Clyde & Co has hired a construction disputes partner based in London and Dubai from Covington & Burling, while another partner has relocated to Sydney.

26 January 2021

UPDATED: The latest round of panels formed at ICSID includes first-time appointments for Singapore’s chief justice Sundaresh Menon SC, Anne-Karin Grill, Joe Tirado, Carmen Núňez-Lagos and Samaa Haridi.

22 January 2021

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, Hogan Lovells and Foley Hoag have promoted members of their international arbitration teams to counsel.

21 January 2021

David MacArthur has become the second high-profile departure from Bae Kim & Lee this month as he leaves to join Japanese firm Anderson Mori & Tomotsune as senior foreign counsel in Tokyo.

20 January 2021

Alicja Zielińska-Eisen, who helped a Luxembourg entity win a €176 million treaty award against Poland, has left Linklaters to join newly-launched disputes boutique Queritius as of counsel, splitting her time between Warsaw and Berlin.

19 January 2021

Stephenson Harwood has appointed Rovine Chandrasekera, who launched the firm’s Middle East practice and has a background in marine law, as its new head of international arbitration.

19 January 2021

The eight-lawyer disputes team at Clifford Chance in Moscow led by partner Timur Aitkulov has left the firm to launch a new disputes boutique in the Russian capital.

18 January 2021

Sabina Sacco has left the partnership at Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler to work as an independent arbitrator, as the Geneva boutique promotes Nina Lauber-Thommesen to counsel.

15 January 2021

Tony Andriotis has left the partnership at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan to join DLA Piper and lead its international arbitration practice in Japan.

15 January 2021

Norton Rose Fulbright has promoted arbitration practitioners to the partnership in London, Sydney, Singapore and Hong Kong.

14 January 2021