Shearman's Brussels managing partner departs to join US rival
Shearman & Sterling is set to lose its only two Brussels-based partners to US rival Arnold & Porter. Shearman's local office head Annette Schild is joining Arnold & Porter in the Belgian capital, along with fellow partner Silvio Cappellari and counsel Stephanie Birmanns. All three lawyers focus on competition and antitrust and have advised high-profile clients including Arriva, BASF, Siemens and Novartis.
August 27, 2009 at 10:40 AM
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Shearman & Sterling is set to lose its only two Brussels-based partners to US rival Arnold & Porter.
Shearman's local office head Annette Schild is joining Arnold & Porter in the Belgian capital, along with fellow partner Silvio Cappellari and counsel Stephanie Birmanns. All three lawyers focus on competition and antitrust and have advised high-profile clients including Arriva, BASF, Siemens and Novartis.
The departures will leave Shearman without a single full-time partner in Brussels. However, the firm said it intends to maintain its competition law practice in the city, and has moved to appoint German co-head Hans Juergen Meyer-Lindemann as the office's new managing partner.
Meyer-Lindemann will now split his time between Shearman's Duesseldorf and Brussels bases, while London-based competition law partner Matthew Readings will also support the Brussels operation.
Shearman senior partner Rohan Weerasinghe said: "We are fully committed to providing our clients with comprehensive European competition law coverage through a strong team of competition law practitioners in our London, Duesseldorf and Paris offices, as well as in Brussels."
Arnold & Porter's Brussels managing partner and European competition practice head Marleen Van Kerckhove – who joined the US firm from Clifford Chance in 2003 to launch the office – said the hires came in response to a need for a larger Brussels-based competition practice.
She told Legal Week: "The decision to combine our practices was based on a common desire between me and Annette Schild to be part of a larger competition practice in order to better handle our client base. The team will strengthen our office by headcount as well as through added experience and it also gives us access to clients and sectors where we have not previously advised."
Arnold & Porter's Brussels office currently has eight lawyers, including two partners and two counsel. The European competition practice also includes London-based partners Tim Frazer and Susan Hinchliffe.
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