Hogan Lovells Announces 24 Promoted to Partnership and 41 Promoted to Counsel, Of Counsel and Consultant 

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LawFuel.com – Law Firm News – LONDON and WASHINGTON, D.C., 5 January 2015 – Hogan Lovells has announced the promotion of 24 new partners, effective 1 January 2015. The global law firm includes more than 800 partners in offices across Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas.

Collectively, the group of new partners represents each Hogan Lovells practice group:

  • Nine in Corporate (including in Corporate, Real Estate, and Tax)
  • Six in Litigation, Arbitration and Employment (including in International Arbitration, Employment and Litigation)
  • Five in Government Regulatory (including in Energy, Food, Drug, Medical Device and Agriculture and Privacy & Information Management)
  • Two in Finance (in Banking and Business Restructuring & Insolvency)
  • Two in Intellectual Property

The jurisdictional spread reflects the broad international nature of Hogan Lovells’ practice:

  • 12 in the United States & Latin America: Denver, Mexico City, Miami, Washington, D.C.
  • Ten in Europe: Amsterdam, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, London, Milan, Paris
  • Two in Asia: Hong Kong

In addition to the 24 new partners, 41 new appointments to the role of Counsel, Of Counsel and Consultant have been made.

CEO Steve Immelt said:
Nurturing and promoting the excellent talent that we have within the business at Hogan Lovells is central to our strategy of providing the best service and the best talent in the legal sector to our clients. These individuals represent the quality, breadth, and depth of Hogan Lovells around the world, which no other law firm can match.  The promotions demonstrate our ongoing investment in our business. We congratulate all those who were promoted and wish them every success in the future.”

New Partners:

New Counsel, Of Counsel, and Consultants:

  • Jan Blockx – Counsel, Government Regulatory (ACER), Brussels
  • Jaime Bofill – Counsel, LAE (Insurance and Reinsurance), Madrid
  • Kevin Burke – Counsel, Corporate (Transactional), Denver
  • Roberta Chang – Consultant, Corporate (Tax), Shanghai
  • Paul Chaplin – Of Counsel, LAE (Financial Services Litigation), London
  • Brian Curran – Counsel, Government Regulatory (International Trade), Washington, D.C.
  • Gianni De Stefano – Counsel, Government Regulatory (ACER), Brussels
  • Paul Donnelly – Counsel, Corporate (Transactional), New York
  • Victoria Du Croz – Of Counsel, Corporate (Real Estate), London
  • Elizabeth Fawell – Counsel, Government Regulatory (FDA-Food), Washington, D.C.
  • Matthew Felwick – Of Counsel, LAE (Product Liability), London
  • Charles Ford – Of Counsel, Finance (Infrastructure, Energy, Resources and Projects), London
  • Gaia Gelera – Of Counsel, LAE (Administrative and Public Law), Rome
  • Richard Goss – Of Counsel, Finance (Banking), London
  • Martin Haase – Counsel, Corporate (Real Estate), Dusseldorf
  • Alex Harrison – Of Counsel, Finance (Infrastructure, Energy, Resources and Projects), London
  • Peter Huber – Counsel, Corporate (Transactional), Munich
  • Yusuke Inui – Of Counsel, IPMT (Intellectual Property, Media and Technology), Tokyo
  • Evan Kelson – Counsel, Finance (International Debt Capital Markets), New York
  • Thomas Kendra – Counsel, LAE (International Arbitration), Paris
  • Inken Knief – Counsel, LAE (International Arbitration), Munich
  • Lina Kontos – Counsel, Government Regulatory (FDA-Medical Devices), Washington, D.C.
  • Wylie Levone – Counsel, Finance (Infrastructure, Energy, Resources and Projects), Rio de Janeiro
  • Stephen Loney – Counsel, LAE (Litigation), Philadelphia
  • Carla Luh – Counsel, Finance (Infrastructure, Energy, Resources and Projects), Hamburg
  • Kanyi Lui – Counsel, Finance (Infrastructure, Energy, Resources and Projects), Beijing
  • Jonathan Malim – Counsel, Finance (International Debt Capital Markets), Sao Paolo (promotion and move from London will become effective in the first half of 2015)
  • Miguel Angel Mateo Simon – Counsel, Finance (Infrastructure, Energy, Resources and Projects), Mexico City
  • Zihuri Fernando Medina Luna – Counsel, Corporate (Real Estate), Mexico City
  • Martin Pflüger – Counsel, IPMT (Intellectual Property, Media and Technology), Munich
  • Luis Adrian Rosas Ortega – Counsel, LAE (Employment), Mexico City
  • Samuel George “Sam”   Roseme – Counsel, Corporate (Transactional), Los Angeles
  • Ignacio  Sanchez – Counsel, LAE (Dispute Resolution), Madrid
  • Benjamin Schröer – Counsel, IPMT (Intellectual Property, Media and Technology), Munich
  • Nathan Searle – Of Counsel, LAE (International Arbitration), London
  • Anton Smirnov – Counsel, LAE (International Arbitration), Moscow
  • Lee Squires – Of Counsel, Corporate (Tax), London
  • Seaton Thedinger – Counsel, Government Regulatory (Environmental), Denver
  • Olena Tokman – Counsel, Corporate (Transactional), Frankfurt
  • Rebecca Wales – Of Counsel, LAE (Litigation), London
  • Lu Zhou – Counsel, Corporate (Transactional), Beijing

 

 


Further Growth in China for US Law Firms

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Law firms in China continued to grow during 2014, fueled mainly by M&A and regulatory work and the US firms surveyed by China Daily say they expect the trend to continue this year.

“The volume, deal size and sophistication of US acquisition matters from our China-based clients have steadily increased in the past several years. We anticipate continued growth in 2015,” said Thomas Albrecht, managing partner Asia-Pacific region with Chicago-based Sidley Austin LLP, which has offices in Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai.

Miranda So, a Davis Polk & Wardell LLP corporate partner in Hong Kong, said the China practice was “busy” in 2014 and expects to remain busy in 2015. Davis Polk, based in New York, has offices in Beijing and Hong Kong.

Paul Marquardt, partner at New York-based Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, which maintains offices in Beijing and Hong Kong, said after a period during which Chinese investors appeared convinced that any China-linked deal would face protectionist backlash via a review process from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), Chinese acquirers are now confident in addressing CFIUS.

“We’ve been involved in transactions with major Chinese State-owned enterprises, private companies, and investors that demonstrate that even in potentially sensitive sectors such as energy and telecoms deals can still be done,” Marquardt said.

Davis Polk’s So said capital markets, M&A and regulatory enforcement were the top areas for the firm’s China practice last year. “Many of the largest deals we work on are cross-border transactions that involve teams from both our China and US office.

“Our Hong Kong and Beijing offices have grown significantly in the last few years,” So continued. “On the US side, we are focused on recruiting the best talent from US law schools who are interested in practicing law and developing a career in China. Ten years ago, all of our US associates would start in our US offices and work there for a few years before transferring to China. Now, we recruit law school graduates and encourage those who are interested to start hitting the ground right away in China.”

Albrecht said Sidley Austin client concerns in 2014 included manufacturing and technology issues. “As the deals have grown in sophistication and complexity, it has become more important to have the deal lawyers located in a time-zone friendly jurisdiction to interface with opposing counsel and other US- based professionals involved in the transaction.

In other words, the involvement of our US-based colleagues has increased,” he said.

Read more at China Daily

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