Freshfields promotes in three cities
Freshfields has promoted Rohit Bhat in Singapore, Joshua Kelly in London and Katharina Shingler in Frankfurt to the partnership.
People, firms and organisations
Ex-Arnold & Porter partner launches advocacy resource
US academic and ex-Arnold & Porter partner Mallory Silberman has set up a new freelance consultancy for practitioners – offering mocks and moots, advocacy practice and other forms of practical guidance.
Ciarb issues guidelines on AI
The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, or Ciarb, has published guidelines on the use of artificial intelligence in arbitration – the latest effort to provide practical guidance on ethical use of the technology.
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Teynier Pic makes first counsel promotion
Anne-Sophie Tonin, who helped French telecoms group Orange attach airplanes belonging to Equatorial Guinea, has been promoted to counsel at Paris boutique Teynier Pic.
28 January 2019
White & Case grows Lat Am team
Silvia Marchili has joined the partnership at White & Case after 13 years with King & Spalding in Houston, where she acted for investors in a number of successful treaty claims against Latin American states.
22 January 2019
CAS leader moves to private practice in Lausanne
The former deputy secretary general of the Court of Arbitration for Sport William Sternheimer has joined specialist boutique Morgan Sports Law, where he will head the firm’s newly opened Lausanne office.
10 January 2019
Lawyers charged in Geneva over fake arbitration
Swiss authorities have charged Matthew Parish and two other Geneva-based lawyers with fabricating an arbitration as part of an effort to implicate senior Kuwaiti officials in a coup plot and corruption scandal.
03 December 2018
New board for Ukrainian Arbitration Association
The Ukrainian Arbitration Association has elected lawyers based in Kiev, Moscow, London, Paris and Minsk to its nine-strong board presided over by Olena Perepelynska of Integrites in Kiev.
30 November 2018
Hoffmann departs Clyde & Co to set up independent boutique
Dual qualified English-German lawyer Anne K Hoffmann has left Clyde & Co in Dubai to establish her own arbitration boutique in the emirate.
29 October 2018
Akin Gump’s Moscow disputes head launches new practice citing US sanctions
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld’s Moscow disputes head has left the firm along with 12 other lawyers, including five who practise international arbitration, to set up a new practice, citing US sanctions against Russia as the main reason for the move.
19 September 2018
Young construction group appoints Singapore co-chair
The recently formed YConstruction group has appointed a partner at Rajah & Tann in Singapore as its fourth co-chair as it looks to expand its reach in Asia following its opening in May.
12 September 2018
US alleges kickbacks by law firms in Venezuela cases
The US Department of Justice has alleged that unnamed law firms representing Venezuela in international arbitrations arranged to pay “kickbacks” to the relative of a Venezuelan government official.
01 August 2018
Noury takes helm at Freshfields in London
Sylvia Noury has taken over as London head of international arbitration at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, in the group's second leadership change this year.
01 May 2018
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