After departing the ACCC 25 years ago for private practice, the national head of King & Wood Mallesons’ competition law group has won a five-year appointment as commissioner.
Piper Alderman has appointed a new partner to its litigation team in Sydney with specialist expertise in litigation funding.
Thompson Geer has nabbed a partner and a special counsel from Baker McKenzie to grow its Melbourne-based banking and finance team.
Twenty-three barristers in NSW have joined the silk ranks, including a leading defamation lawyer who was on the Fairfax legal team that defeated accused war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation suit.
Baker McKenzie has appointed a new special counsel to join the law firm’s private equity practice group in its Sydney office.
Australian Securities and Investments Commission chair Joe Longo will hang up his badge after his term as head of the corporate cop ends in eight months.
Lander & Rogers has hired a technology, data and intellectual property pro from Clayton Utz to join its team in Melbourne.
Piper Alderman has appointed a partner with equity capital markets expertise for the law firm’s corporate team in Perth.
Intellectual property firm Wrays has lured a former special counsel at King & Wood Mallesons to join as the firm’s new head of trade marks.
Clayton Utz has snagged a senior partner from Allens’ mergers and acquisitions team to become its head of private equity.