Law firm Maddocks has bolstered its corporate practice with the addition of two senior mergers and acquisitions specialists, nabbed from Lander & Rogers and Herbert Smith Freehills.
Lander & Rogers has recruited four leading corporate lawyers from KPMG Law, including highly-regarded partner David Morris, as part of the law firm’s aggressive growth strategy.
Herbert Smith Freehills has appointed technology law specialist Cameron Whittfield as part of its plan to be a dominant global player in the technology, cyber security and digital space.
Holding Redlich has scored leading workplace relations lawyer Andrew Klein to lead the firm’s workplace relations and safety practice at its newly established Canberra office, with a focus on government clients.
A leading climate change lawyer at Baker McKenzie has made the jump to Gilbert + Tobin, less than a year after the US firm’s renewable energy practice lost its global co-head and two partners to another Big Six firm.
Hall & Wilcox has lured a cyber whiz to bolster the firm’s cyber insurance and advisory practice, amid an expected jump in cyber-related claims this year.
Allens has lured leading M&A tax lawyer Ellen Thomas from PricewaterhouseCoopers to strengthen the Big Six firm’s expertise in mergers and acquisitions and finance transactions.
Ashurst has bolstered the ranks of its financial regulation team with the appointment of long-serving Clayton Utz partner Narelle Smythe, who joins the firm’s team in Sydney.
Law firm DLA Piper has picked up a pre-eminent property partner from Moray & Agnew, who advised on the $175 million joint venture between GPT and QuadReal Property Ground to acquire logistics developments on Australia’s eastern seaboard. On Monday, Sallie Bowtell was appointed to DLA Piper’s real estate practice in Melbourne, where the team’s head,…
Corrs Chambers Westgarth has bolstered its energy and natural resources practice with the appointment of two new partners, former Allen’s partner Tracey Greenaway and London transplant Anthony Lepere, formerly of Shearman & Sterling.