The American Lawyer - Focus Europe, Winter 2012

The Churn

WHO Tony Angel, nonexecutive director at SJ Berwin and former Linklaters managing partner Salans global banking chair Stephen Finch and six other Salans partners Novartis AG general counsel Thomas Werlen Michael Madden, head of Ashurst's dispute resolution practice Barlow Lyde & Gilbert restructuring and insolvency head Jonathan Yorke and Bird & Bird corporate partner Stuart Blythe

Ashurst corporate partner David Evans and investment funds partner Samantha Lake Coghlan

Olswang international finance head Michael Benster Flavia Distefano, European competition head at McKenna Long & Aldridge, and Jeroen Smets, Taylor Wessing’s regional corporate head Hunton & Williams competition partners Michael Rosenthal and Paul McGeown, four other Hunton lawyers, and Shearman & Sterling competition partner Götz Drauz Hervé Castelnau, head of Norton Rose’s French corporate practice, three other Norton Rose lawyers, and Latham & Watkins competition partner Eric Barbier de La Serre Marc Fredj, a corporate partner at Simmons & Simmons, and two other Simmons & Simmons lawyers Garrigues project finance head José Guardo

SNR Denton private equity partner Pierre Jouglard, Willkie Farr & Gallagher private equity partner Emmanuel Scialom, Bird & Bird tax partner Anne Quenedey, and Linklaters real estate partner Jesús Varela Fabio del Bene, an M&A and private equity partner at Gianni, Origoni, Grippo & Partners, and two other Gianni lawyers Grimaldi & Associati corporate head Roberto Cappelli and ten other Grimaldi lawyers Clifford Chance global head of aerospace and defense Georg Linde

Linklaters real estate and construction partners Roland Fabian and Hanns-William Mülsch and two other Linklaters lawyers Hogan Lovells technology, media, and telecommunications cohead Stefan Engels and ten other Hogan Lovells lawyers

Robert Bachner, an M&A partner at Hausmaniger Kletter Rechtsänwalte Dechert litigation partners Ivan Marisin and Vasily Kuznetsov Maxim Kulkov, head of Goltsblat BLP’s Russia disputes practice

Oleg Arkhipov, head of Hannes Snellman’s Russia disputes practice Roschier managing partner Ulf-Hendrik Kull and Hannes Snellman managing partner Carl-Hendrik Wallin

The London office of DLA Piper, where he will be the firm’s cochair and senior partner The new London office of Locke Lord

The European offices of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan

The London office of Winston & Strawn, where he will head the office’s commercial litigation practice The London office of Edwards Wildman Palmer Goodwin Procter’s London office, which Evans will lead

Chiomenti Studio Legale’s London office

K&L Gates’s Brussels office The new Brussels office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Jones Day’s Paris office

Reed Smith’s Paris office

Clifford Chance’s Madrid office Jouglard, Scialom, and Quenedey join the Paris office of Salans, and Varela joins the firm’s Madrid office

DLA Piper’s Milan office The Milan office of what will now be Gianni, Origoni, Grippo, Cappelli & Partners

The Frankfurt office of Willkie Farr & Gallagher

The new Frankfurt and Berlin offices of Berwin Leighton Paisner Bird & Bird’s Hamburg office

Schönherr’s Vienna office The new Moscow office of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan

The Moscow office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Goltsblat BLP’s Moscow office The new Helsinki-based firm of Avance Attorneys

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