A new year calls for new partners. The Am Law 200 kick-started 2011 by shopping around for lateral hires to join their ranks; corporate and litigation attorneys were at the top of their wish lists. Firms also plucked lawyers from government positions to bolster their financial institutions, global compliance, and antitrust practices.
Pervez Akhtar
Partner, corporate
Freshfields Bruckhaus, Deringer, Dubai
The former partner in Allen & Overy’s Middle East corporate practice is heading to Freshfields. Akhtar, who specializes in M&A work, will lead Freshfields’s corporate practice in the Middle East and North Africa. He will be the fifth partner in the firm’s Dubai office; two other partners have relocated there in the past year.
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