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ESG in 2024: getting to grips with the new paradigm
Due diligence, stock exchange requirements, carbon markets and nature will be on next year's ESG agenda, write HSF’s Silke Goldberg, Ernst Muller and Tihomir Svilanovic
European invasion – firms flood into the EU’s legal markets
US and UK firms have been seeking to expand their European footprints post-Brexit, writes Buchanan Law’s James Lavan
McDermott snaps up White & Case’s former Brussels head
Axel Schulz adds depth to competition team following retirement of heavyweight Philip Bentley KC
Former WilmerHale Brussels partner rejoins Henderson Chambers
EU competition law specialist John Ratliff returns to the Bar after 24 years with US firm
Japanese heavyweight Anderson Mori debuts in Brussels
Tokyo-based firm follows up 2022’s London launch with new base offering Japanese law advice to clients across Europe
Clifford Chance elects 32 new partners in diverse round
Twelve women included in round that sees 39% of new US and UK partners come from minority ethnic backgrounds
Around the house: Cushman & Wakefield taps Univar for new GC, BDO promotes legal head to global GC
This week’s roundup of top in-house moves also includes appointments at Tui Group, Microvast, Eiger BioPharmaceuticals and Washington Spirit
HSF announces new antitrust leadership
Kyriakos Fountoukakos to serve as managing partner of global competition and trade team
Baker McKenzie's Belgium head departs as firm completes review into Brussels office discrimination claims
Global giant to assemble new management team after allegations surfaced in email from departing lawyer to colleagues
Baker McKenzie's Brussels head steps aside pending completion of review into office discrimination claims
Review follows allegations by former lawyer she was subject to multiple instances of discrimination
Davis Polk secures Allen & Overy partner duo to launch in Brussels
Wall Street leader joins ranks of US firms planting a flag in EU’s competition hub post-Brexit
Wilson Sonsini lands former Hong Kong Competition Commission director to boost Brussels arm
Jindrich Kloub joins as a partner following five-year spell in Hong Kong after more than a decade at EC's competition arm
Squire Patton Boggs hires data privacy and cyber team from Steptoe in Brussels
Team is led by partner Charles-Albert Helleputte, who will head firm’s EU data privacy practice
Van Bael & Bellis adds four more transactions lawyers from DLA Piper in Brussels
Former DLA Piper Brussels corporate lead Caroline Daout joins alongside team of associates
DLA Piper hires Hausfeld’s former Brussels, Paris head amid ongoing European antitrust push
Laurent Geelhand will join as a partner in the firm’s competition practice in Brussels
France’s Gide promotes nine to partner in Paris-focused round
New partners also make the cut in Brussels, London and Warsaw
Norton Rose Fulbright rings Brussels changes with new office head and White & Case partner hire
Miranda Cole is taking over from Jay Modrall who is retiring from the partnership
UK law societies' Brussels office to close in response to Brexit
Move blamed on falling workload now UK has third country status with EU
Crowell & Moring adds veteran disputes partner in Brussels from Allen & Overy
Werner Eyskens moves over as US firms continue run of partner laterals from UK rivals in Belgian capital
K&L Gates secures Brussels antitrust partner from Linklaters
Nikolaos Peristerakis is the third Brussels-based lawyer Linklaters has lost to a US firm this year
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