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This week:
Movers & Shakers
Panel Watch
John Lewis to Prioritise Innovation and Diversity in Upcoming Panel Review
Appointments
Goodwin names long-time managing partner as new chairman
Dentons Appoints First Female US Managing Partner
A&L Goodbody appoints second female chair
Former Addleshaws partner takes top legal job at Royal Mail
Deliveroo names new GC following exits
Moves
O’Melveny Loses Another London Partner as A&O Merger Looms
O’Melveny & Myers London funds partner Eve Ellis is leaving to join Ropes & Gray in the office’s third partner departure in the space of a month.
WFW hires director of Clifford Chance’s Africa Group
Titus Edjua joins the energy and infrastructure practice of Watson Farley & Williams following 13 years at the Magic Circle firm
Brown Rudnick loses real estate partner in London
Omega Poole, formerly a legal director at CBRE, joins Mishcon de Reya as a partner in the City
Hogan Lovells hires managing director from UBS
UBS managing director and global head of group investigations governance, reporting and whistleblowing management Arwen Handley to join the financial services litigation practice of Hogan Lovells
DLA Piper makes seventh lateral hire in Dublin
Litigation & Regulatory partner Caoimhe Clarkin joins from local firm A&L Goodbody
Eversheds Adds Hong Kong Technology Practice Leader From Big Four’s PwC
Rhys McWhirter leaves PwC’s Hong Kong affiliate law firm Tiang & Partners to join Eversheds as a consultant and a leader of the firm’s technology, media and telecommunications practice
Mergers & Alliances
DAC Beachcroft Launches in Northern Ireland with Alliance Firm Takeover
Office Openings & Closings
Clifford Chance Paris Trio Form New Firm
Partner Promotions
Diversity Plummets in Bumper Clyde & Co Partner Promotions Round
HSF Misses Female Partnership Target in Latest Promotions
Clydes laments poor gender record in latest promotions
Other
Baker McKenzie Global Chair Dies