People and firms

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has promoted Joaquin (Jack) Terceño and David Livshiz – who both joined the firm from Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton – to the partnership in Tokyo and New York respectively.

14 April 2021

Latin America disputes specialist Erika Levin has left US firm Lewis Baach Kaufmann Middlemiss to join the partnership at Fox Rothschild in New York.

13 April 2021

JUDGMENT NOW AVAILABLE: Former Gibson Dunn disputes partner Peter Gray has been struck off the roll of solicitors of England and Wales, six years after he was found to have deliberately misled the High Court.

09 April 2021

The Bogotá Chamber of Commerce has appointed a new president to lead its arbitration and conciliation centre.

09 April 2021

Allen & Overy has promoted Lucia Raimanova in Bratislava and Joanne Lau in Hong Kong to the partnership, both of whom have worked on high-profile investment disputes.

08 April 2021

Christian Albanesi, a former managing counsel at the ICC International Court of Arbitration, has been promoted to the partnership at Linklaters in Washington, DC.

08 April 2021

Toby Landau QC has officially left Essex Court Chambers after China’s imposition of sanctions and will be a sole practitioner in London and a member of the newly launched Duxton Hill Chambers in Singapore.

06 April 2021

UPDATED: Leading international arbitration practitioner Emmanuel Gaillard has died suddenly at the age of 69.

02 April 2021

PCB Litigation, a disputes boutique part-owned by Burford Capital, has merged with London fraud specialists Byrne and Partners to form a new firm handling "all forms of dispute resolution".

01 April 2021

Gary Yin, who led the Hong Kong investigations and disputes practice at Chinese firm Jingtian & Gongcheng, has joined the partnership at Simmons & Simmons in Hong Kong.

01 April 2021