Howrey has lost another partner in Brussels with Tom McQuail off to join Morrison & Foerster (MoFo). McQuail joins MoFo as a partner in the firm’s antitrust and competition team. His departure follows the recent announcement that Shearman & Sterling has picked up a five-partner team from Howrey in Brussels (23 February 2011). Howrey has […]
Shearman & Sterling has hired five partners and around a dozen associates from Howrey’s Brussels office, including former head Trevor Soames. The partners also include Stephen Mavroghenis, the English-qualified lawyer who took over from Soames as managing partner of Howrey’s Brussels office last month (20 January 2011). The three other Howrey partners joining Shearman are […]
Belgian independent Liedekerke Wolters Waelbroeck Kirkpatrick has appointed Jan Vincent Lindemans as managing partner and Philippe Malherbe as senior partner. Lindemans replaces Aimery de Schoutheete, who steps down after 10 years in the role. Both Lindemans and Malherbe have been members of the firm’s board of directors for a number of years. Lindemans said Liedekerke […]
K&L Gates has opened an office in Brussels with the hire of two partners from McDermott Will & Emery. The launch brings the total number of offices in the firm’s network to 37. Corporate partner Patrice Corbiau and competition specialist Philip Torbøl join K&L Gates today with the intention of building up the firm’s presence […]
Howrey competition specialist Damien Geradin has become the latest partner to leave the firm after joining the Brussels office of US outfit Covington & Burling. Geradin joins the firm as a partner in its global antitrust and competition practice, focusing on competition and IP matters. Previous clients have included Microsoft and telecoms company Qualcomm. Covington’s […]
CMS DeBacker, the Belgian arm of the CMS network, has announced that it will open a Luxembourg office on 1 January 2011. The firm will open the office in partnership with Julien Leclère and Vivian Walry, founders of Leclère & Walry. The firm will be called CMS DeBacker Leclère Walry. Leclère will manage a team […]
Swedish firm Vinge has boosted its Brussels office with a competition lawyer from Howrey, two months after four partners left the US firm’s Belgium base. Kristian Hugmark, a senior associate at Howrey’s Brussels office, will join Vinge at the end of the year. He will be the firm’s resident partner in Brussels and lead a […]
Clifford Chance competition lawyer Tony Reeves has been elected as the firm’s new Brussels managing partner. Reeves, currently head of the firm’s European competition and regulation group in Brussels, will succeed Yves Herinckx, who has been the Brussels managing partner for 14 years. Herinckx is expected to stand down from his role next month and […]
Baker & McKenzie today opens its 68th office, launching a base in Luxembourg as it looks to capitalise on the expected boom in investment fund activity in the country. The new office will be staffed by all 15 lawyers from Luxembourg firm Findling Collin Fessmann (FCF), which will cease to operate, along with five tax […]
Benelux firm and Herbert Smith alliance partner Stibbe is set to launch an office in Luxembourg. The new office is expected to open on 1 September and will be headed by partner Dirk Leermakers, who has been recruited from Luxembourg firm Bonn Schmitt Steichen. Leermakers will be joined by a team of three lawyers from […]
Covington & Burling has benefited from an unresolved conflict of interest to hire one of the best-known competition lawyers in Brussels. Howrey partner Peter Camesasca joined Covington this week. Camesasca’s biggest client is Samsung Electronics, which he has represented on several major European investigations and which alone is thought to have generated around €5m (£4.5m) […]
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher’s Brussels office has beefed up its antitrust practice with the hire of a Mayer Brown partner. Andrés Font Galarza will join Gibson Dunn’s antitrust and competition practice after spending two years with Mayer Brown in Brussels office. Prior to joining Mayer Brown he spent 13 years in the European Commission’s Directorate […]