富而德近日因为晋升了数位管理层成员而引发亚洲区管理层出现一轮洗牌。
现任的北京办公室管理合伙人范齐致将会调职到伦敦。上海办公室的管理合伙人汤玛丽将取代其职务,而上海办事处的公司合伙人博海纳将会接任汤的空缺。
该所的全球国际资本市场业务的共同主管史提芬.热非和高级非合伙律师大卫.廓顿将会迁到香港办公室。热非自一九八七年起成为该所的合伙人,之前他是该所的纽约办公室的管理合伙人。
而该所的日本合伙管理人占士.活将会回到伦敦,而占士.罗顿取代将取代其职务。罗顿在富而德工作了超过二十年。
富而德最近进行了一连串的高调招聘和区内的律师调动,并提拔了高育贤为其中国业务主席。这些人事调动显示了该所来年的亚洲业务将进行一轮革新。
Several partner relocations have prompted a wave of management promotions in the Asia practice of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.
Current Beijing managing partner, Nicholas French, who will shortly relocate to London, will be succeeded by Shanghai managing partner Melissa Thomas. Corporate partner Heiner Braun will take up Thomas’ role in Shanghai.
The firm’s global co-head of international capital markets, Stephen Revell, and senior associate David Cotton, a capital markets lawyer, are both relocating to Hong Kong. Revell has been a partner at the firm since 1987, and formerly served as US managing partner in New York.
Japan managing partner James Wood will also be returning to London, and will be replaced by finance lawyer James Lawden, who has been a partner at Freshfields for over two decades.
These movements are the latest in what is set to be a year of changes for the firm in Asia. Earlier this year, the firm appointed Teresa Ko to chairman of its China practice, and announced several other high profile hires and relocations in the region.