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UK

City law firm RPC has promoted Robbie Constance to partner, taking the firm’s total partner count to 80.
Mr Constance, who sits in RPC's Regulatory team based in London along with fellow partners Steven Francis and Richard Burger, has experience in a broad range of contentious and non-contentious financial services regulatory work with a particular focus on the insurance and asset management sectors.
Mr Constance joined the firm in 2004 after qualifying as a barrister, initially focussing on financial services insurance litigation before moving into RPC’s Regulatory team.

Buisness law firm DWF has snapped up a team of four partners and eight lawyers from Eversheds to add to its 80-strong Newcastle office.
The lateral hire includes former Eversheds partners Gavin Jackson, Adam Heather and Adrian Stanley, the latter being Newcastle real estate head and Newcastle senior partner respectively.  
DWF said in a statement that the group posses a range of specialisms and strong expertise in public and private sector development and, joint ventures, urban regeneration, real estate finance and public sector funding as well as mines and minerals.
The team has particular experience in the retail sector, and also the energy and utility and transport sectors.

Europe

Dutch financial and economic criminal law expert Aldo Verbruggen has joined leading Netherlands-based law firm Houthoff Buruma.
Mr Verbruggen is a nationally recognised white collar crime litigator. He began practising law as a public prosecutor and made an impressive career bringing several high-profile complex fraud cases to trial.
He went over to private practice by joining a niche firm specialised in corporate criminal law before joining Houthoff Buruma's fast growing corporate investigations practice on 1 May.

Ireland’s leading financial services law firm, Dillon Eustace, has snapped up Jamie Ensor to work in the Dublin-based firm’s corporate recovery and insolvency team.
Mr Ensor - an insolvency law expert - brings a wealth of experience acting for liquidators, receivers, creditors and distressed companies in relation to all aspects of corporate insolvency and restructuring.  
He also has experience in wide-ranging litigation proceedings arising from insolvency appointments.
Mr Ensor joins Dillon Eustace from Eugene Collins, where he worked for over ten years.

Martin Jurecko has been appointed a partner in the Bratislava office of Havel Holásek & Partners.
In his new role at the Czech-Slovak firm, Mr Jurecko will be involved in the management of the office and the further growth and development of the Slovak team. He will focus on real estate, mergers and acquisitions and corporate law.  
Before joining Havel Holásek & Partners, Mr Jure?ko worked for New York-headquartered White & Case for nine years, taking part in a number of major real estate, M&A and corporate law transactions.

Australasia

Global law firm Baker & McKenzie has confirmed the capture of top life sciences partner Amanda Turnhill.
Ms Turnhill joins the firm from DLA Piper and will co-chair Baker & McKenzie’s Australian life sciences group with partner Ben McLaughlin. She will be based in Sydney.
Ms Turnhill boasts more than 20 years’ experience as a product liability litigator and regulatory specialist, having advised pharmaceutical, medical technology, biotechnology, and other life sciences companies in Australia, the UK, Europe, USA and Asia. Her key clients include several top 20 global pharmaceutical and medical technology companies.

Global

International legal practice Simmons & Simmons has announced the promotion of five dispute resolution lawyers to its partnership.
The new partners are: Etienne Kowalski (dispute resolution, Paris); Francesco Maruffi (dispute resolution, Milan); Navneet Juty (dispute resolution, London); Olivier Mignolet (dispute resolution, Brussels) and Peter Broadhurst (ECR, London).

City law firm Kennedy’s has promoted six solicitors to its partnership this year, representing 50 per cent increase on last year and taking the firm’s total partner count to 155.
The lawyers made partner at the international litigation and dispute resolution law firm are: Joanie Ko (Hong Kong); Fiona Morgan (London); Sarah Maylor (Sheffield); Ron Ruston (Chelmsford) and Raymond Gilmore and Graeme Moore (both Belfast).