Norton Rose recuits Salans team for Paris competition practice
Norton Rose is relaunching its Paris competition practice with the hire of a four-lawyer team from Salans, including the firm's European competition law practice group head. The UK top 10 firm has recruited Melanie Thill-Tayara as managing partner of its Paris competition, regulatory and EU capability practice.
September 23, 2009 at 09:34 AM
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Norton Rose is relaunching its Paris competition practice with the hire of a four-lawyer team from Salans, including the firm's European competition law practice group head.
The UK top 10 firm has recruited Melanie Thill-Tayara as managing partner of its Paris competition, regulatory and EU capability practice.
She will join Norton Rose next month (1 October) after 18 years with Salans, bringing with her a three-lawyer team which also includes Martha Giner, who joins as of counsel.
The team will fill the gap left when former Paris competition head Laure Givny departed to join De Pardieu Brocas Maffei in May last year. The firm's European competition, regulatory and EU practice group has a total of around 40 lawyers and is headed by City-based partner Martin Coleman.
Norton Rose Paris managing partner George Paterson said Thill-Tayara's practice is an especially good fit with the firm's practice due to her strength in sectors including life sciences.
He added: "Melanie will work within the competition and the corporate practice to attract business to the firm. The hire is part of our counter-cyclical plan to build in Paris to coincide with the expected upturn in the market."
Salans has five remaining competition lawyers in Paris and has handed the leadership of the group to Emmanuelle Van Den Broucke.
The firm said in a statement: "We wish Melanie the best of professional and personal success in contributing to a French competition presence at her new firm."
The news comes as US firm King & Spalding gained regulatory approval to formally launch a seven-lawyer new office in Paris. The firm announced its French entry in April this year with the hire of Dewey & LeBoeuf Paris managing partner Eric Schwartz.
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