Japanese banking giant Nomura has completed an overhaul of its in-house legal team following last year's takeover of Lehman Brothers' European and Middle Eastern equities and investment banking businesses.

The combined legal department is to be overseen by European general counsels Mark Chapman and Piers Le Marchant, who was previously managing director of legal at Lehman.

Nomura has divided the legal team to cover the bank's main lines of business – fixed income, investment banking and equities – and the back office, including corporate and compliance..

Clare Jones will head the fixed income and investment banking group, while Chris Barlow will head the corporate department.

The compliance division will be headed by Simon Thorn, while Bruce Railton will oversee the bank's equities division.

Both Thorn and Railton were previously with Nomura, meaning that five of the six leadership positions have gone to lawyers already with the Japanese bank.

The appointments come as part of a widescale restructuring of the team in the wake of the takeover, which has resulted in 12 job losses across both banks.

The news comes after Nomura hired former Lovells partner Matthew French. French joined the bank last month from UBS and will hold a non-legal title as Europe, Middle East and Africa head of restructuring. He will report to European head of M&A Adrian Mee.

No further cuts are expected to Nomura's legal team.