KWM completes corporate leadership reshuffle as Davis stands down
King & Wood Mallesons SJ Berwin (KWM) has appointed a new corporate leadership team, replacing current postholder Steven Davis with immediate effect. Partners Michael Goldberg (pictured) and Richard Lever will jointly lead the City corporate practice. Davis has led the London corporate group since 2006, when he replaced former senior partner Jonathan Blake in the role. He will continue to work at the firm.
December 11, 2013 at 11:33 AM
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King & Wood Mallesons SJ Berwin (KWM) has appointed a new corporate leadership team, replacing current post-holder Steven Davis with immediate effect.
Partners Michael Goldberg (pictured) and Richard Lever will jointly lead the City corporate practice. Davis has led the London corporate group since 2006, when he replaced former senior partner Jonathan Blake in the role. He will continue to work at the firm.
Meanwhile Paris-based partner Maxence Bloch will head up the corporate group in the UK, continental Europe and the Middle East in a newly created position that will see him co-ordinate the local practice groups, which are headed up by Goldberg and Lever as well as Julian Lemor in Germany, Hamish Walton in the Middle East and Carlos Pazos and Roberto Pomares in Spain.
Last month KWM appointed China-based international managing partner and former Clifford Chance partner Rupert Li as its global practice co-ordinator of corporate, M&A and securities.
The news comes after the firm recently rejigged its real estate leadership.
Partner William Boss became co-head of the London real estate group alongside incumbent Simon Ricketts.
International head of real estate Bryan Pickup was named as global co-ordinator of the practice group, while City-based partner Ed Page and Madrid-based partner Enrique Isla were appointed as co-heads of the international real estate sector group.
The merger between Sino-Australian giant King & Wood Mallesons and UK firm SJ Berwin went live at the start of last month to create a $1bn (£611m) global outfit under a Swiss Verein structure.
At the go-live date the combined entity confirmed details of its international organisation structure, which includes a nine-strong group of practice coordinators including Li and Pickup.
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