Taylor Wessing taps Lovells for Paris hire
Taylor Wessing has boosted its French transactional capability with the hire of a partner from City giant Lovells. M&A heavyweight Gilles de Poix joins Taylor Wessing as a partner in the Paris corporate department. As well as mainstream corporate, de Poix also focuses on securities and restructuring work.
June 20, 2008 at 08:58 AM
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Taylor Wessing has boosted its French transactional capability with the hire of a partner from City giant Lovells.
M&A heavyweight Gilles de Poix joins Taylor Wessing as a partner in the Paris corporate department. As well as mainstream corporate, de Poix also focuses on securities and restructuring work.
De Poix joined Lovells' corporate finance practice as a partner in 2001 after a 10-year stint with top French firm Gide Loyrette Nouel, including three years as a partner. He has also practised with Granrut Chresteil and Hughes Hubbard & Reed.
The hire brings Taylor Wessing's Paris office to around 20 partners and 75 lawyers in total. Earlier this week, the office elected a new managing partner, with entertainment partner Christian Valsamidis taking the helm from Arnaud de Senilhes, who had led the office since 2003.
The departure follows a number of high-profile exits from Lovells in recent weeks, with April seeing a four-lawyer finance team quitting the firm's Hong Kong office for White & Case, former Hamburg real estate chief Michael Buetter moving in-house and Italy private equity head Andrea Accornero switching to Simmons & Simmons.
However, Lovells has also made a number of hires, with corporate partner Pierre Todorov joining the Paris office from an in-house role with hotels group Accor. Todorov, executive vice president and general counsel at Accor, joined Lovells as a partner on 2 June.
This month the firm also secured the hire of the bulk of Simmons' Tokyo practice as well as boosting its Spanish corporate practice with the hire of Cintra general counsel Lucas Osorio.
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