Taylor Wessing has appointed corporate partner James Robertson as one of its three divisional directors, handing him a seat on both the UK and international management boards.

Robertson took up the new post at the beginning of this week (1 June), taking over Tim Eyles' former responsibility for the division, which includes the corporate, commercial & projects practice, as well as practices such as private client, tax & incentives, employment & pensions, private equity and financial institutions.

As divisional director, Robertson will have responsibility for managing all group resources, driving strategic planning and setting practice area objectives alongside respective practice group leaders.

Robertson joined Taylor Wessing in 2005 from Stephenson Harwood where he was head of the firm's corporate practice and for the past 18 months has been heading the corporate real estate and hotels group. Prior to Stephenson Harwood, he ran businesses in locations across the Middle East, India, Latin America and Europe, and worked in-house.

Robertson's appointment, made weeks after Eyles was elected in April to replace Michael Frawley as managing partner, sees him join finance chief Rodney Dukes and intellectual property head Charles Lloyd as a divisional director.

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