Jonas Koponen has joined Cooley’s Brussels office as a partner in the firm’s global antitrust & competition practice group. He arrives from Linklaters, where he served as global head of the firm’s antitrust and foreign investment group and as global co‐head of its life sciences and healthcare sector team. Koponen is a highly regarded competition lawyer with a practice spanning complex transactional work, investigations and litigation.
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Steptoe & Johnson LLP is pleased to announce the arrival of a four-lawyer international trade team in the firm’s Brussels office, led by Renato Antonini and Eva Monard, who join the firm as partners. The team is rounded out by Byron Maniatis and Elli Zachari, who join as associates. Together, the team will expand Steptoe’s top-ranked International Trade and Regulatory Compliance Group, with its cross-border capabilities in the US, UK, EU and Asia, and work closely with Brussels colleagues David O’Sullivan and Yongqing Bao. The team arrives from Jones Day LLP.
King & Spalding has added competition partner Salomé Cisnal De Ugarte as partner in its Brussels office. She joins the firm’s Global Antitrust practice. Cisnal De Ugarte joins from Hogan Lovells, where she was a partner in the Antitrust and Competition group and served as Office Managing Partner.
Alston & Bird has bolstered its global anti-corruption compliance capabilities with the addition of Isabelle De Smedt as a partner in the firm’s Brussels office. Joining from Nixon Peabody LLP, De Smedt represents companies in anti-corruption and fraud investigations related to the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, UK Bribery Act, and other government enforcement programs worldwide.
Tags: Alston & Bird LLP | BrusselsElisabethann Wright has joined Cooley in Brussels as a partner in the firm’s growing business litigation and healthcare regulatory practice groups. Wright arrives from Hogan Lovells, where she co-led its European Union life sciences regulatory practice. She has more than 35 years of experience in private practice and international governmental organizations, including as a référandaire (law clerk) at the European Court of Justice and a senior legal officer at the European Free Trade Association Surveillance Authority.
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Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP today announced that prominent antitrust lawyer Dr. Jens-Olrik Murach will join Willkie’s Antitrust & Competition Group as a partner. Mr. Murach will be based in Willkie’s Brussels and Frankfurt offices. He was previously a partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.
International law firm McDermott Will & Emery today announced that Hendrik Viaene has joined the Firm’s international antitrust practice in Brussels as partner. He joins a dynamic, experienced and ambitious team, widely recognised for its outstanding credentials in defending multinational corporations in international cartels and regularly securing complex merger clearances in Europe. Hendrik joins from Deloitte Legal where he led the global Centre of Expertise in Competition and Regulatory Law.
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Mayer Brown today announced that it has expanded its Antitrust & Competition practice in Düsseldorf with the appointment of a team led by partners Christian Horstkotte and Dr. Johannes Weichbrodt. Both partners will join Mayer Brown from Baker McKenzie on January 1, 2021 with three associates.
Squire Patton Boggs continues the global expansion of its International Disputes Resolution (IDR) Practice with the addition of Michelle Glassman Bock, who joins the firm as a partner from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP. Splitting her time between the firm’s Brussels and Washington DC offices, Ms. Bock is the latest addition to the firm’s IDR practice, which has recently hired team members in New York, London, Singapore, Dubai, and Milan and consists of more than 140 practitioners across 20 countries.
