Gide Loyrette Nouel has appointed four new faces to its five-partner executive committee, including a new senior management team.

Managing partner Christophe Eck and senior partner Pierre Raoul-Duval are set to be replaced by Stephane Puel and Baudouin de Moucheron respectively for two-year terms effective from 1 January 2012.

Puel has been a finance partner in the firm's Paris office since 2006 and a member of the executive committee since 2009. He specialises in financial regulation and investment funds.

Corporate crime specialist de Moucheron replaces Raoul-Duval after two terms as senior partner. He founded and managed the firm's Istanbul office between 1997 and 2000 and was a member of the firm's executive committee from 2003 to 2005. Raoul-Duval is returning to fee-earning and will no longer be on the committee.

Eck, who was elected managing partner in 2009, said in a statement: "I wish to hand over my position as managing partner to a new face in order to have more time to dedicate to my clients in their projects in France and internationally."

Meanwhile, M&A partner David Lasfargue and Paris-based real estate transactions partner Frederic Nouel have been appointed to the executive committee alongside former managing partner Eck.

Lasfargue has managed the firm's Moscow office since March 2001 and also heads the office in Saint Petersburg. His appointment marks the first time a partner in charge of an international office has been elected to the firm's committee.

Gide's executive committee is elected every two years, with Lasfargue and Nouel replacing partners Gilles Duquet and Antoine Choffel.

The new comes after Gide made up seven lawyers in its annual promotions round last month, with five of the new partners being made up in Paris and the remaining two promoted in Warsaw and Beijing.

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