Dechert arbitration partner Pierre Mayer is quitting the firm’s Paris office to set up his own practice, citing his reasons for leaving as increasing conflicts of interest and a wish to focus on working as an arbitrator. Mayer has been a partner at Dechert since 2006. He previously worked at the now-defunct Coudert Brothers, quitting […]
French firm Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier has made its first lateral hire for two years, picking up Allen & Overy (A&O) corporate partner Marcus Billam along with a counsel from the magic circle firm. Billam began his career at Darrois Villey as an associate, before being made partner. He left the firm for Clifford Chance […]
French firm Franklin has hired a partner from Bird & Bird’s Paris office to develop a new competition and distribution practice. Julie Catala Marty joins Franklin to head up the team, alongside one associate and two trainees from Bird & Bird. Another associate is joining from Vogel & Vogel. Catala Marty was previously a partner […]
Norton Rose Fulbright has re-elected current chair Stephen Parish for a third term in office starting on 1 May 2015. Parish, who has headed Norton Rose Fulbright since his election in 2009, plans to develop and consolidate on the base that the firm has created and continue to capitalise on the advantages that it gives […]
The former managing partner of Olswang’s Paris office has quit the firm with a team of lawyers to become banking head at French firm UGGC. Stéphan Alamowitch joined Olswang in 2011 from Dechert to head up the firm’s foray into France (2 February 2011). He was managing partner of the office until November 2013, when […]
Nabarro’s newly recruited French ally Lefèvre Pelletier & Associés has reported a 7 per cent rise in turnover for 2014, with revenue hitting €30.5m (£22.9m) for the last year. Revenue rose from €28.3m in 2013 and followed the lateral recruitment of three partners and four promotions last year. The firm now employs 175 people including […]
French firm Veil Jourde has capped off a strong 2014 with the hire of a competition team from Winston & Strawn led by partner Emmanuel Tricot. Tricot is joining the firm along with three associates to launch a competition practice for Veil Jourde. The hires follow a positive 2014 for the firm, which recorded growth […]
Heenan Paris, the boutique which spun out of collapsed Canadian firm Heenan Blaikie last year, has launched an outpost in Washington DC to focus on energy and projects work. The firm has relocated project development and finance partner Sanjoy Jay Bose to the US to spearhead the initiative. Bose will be joined by partner Stephen […]
Earlier this week Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom announced that it was making a rare European lateral hire – and it was a big one. Skadden has recruited Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier’s co-managing partner Olivier Diaz in a boost to its French corporate practice. The hire is the latest in almost 100 moves reported […]
Almost a third of appointments made by law firms in Continental Europe in the last year have been in France, analysis of this year’s lateral hires have shown, with US firms preferring to recruit from their international rivals over independent firms. Out of 317 partner and other European hires reported to The Lawyer during the course […]
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has announced the hire of corporate heavyweight Olivier Diaz from French firm Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier. Diaz, who was co-managing partner of Darrois Villey alongside Didier Théophile, will join Skadden “in the very near future”. The hire is a rare lateral for Skadden’s Paris office. For Darrois Villey, Diaz is […]
French firm Ayache Salama has become the latest in a string of European firms, and one of a handful of French ones, to open a London representative office. The office is the firm’s first foreign desk. A number of the firm’s partners, including co-managing partner Olivier Tordjman, will spend several days a month in London […]