Osborne Clarke international chief executive Simon Beswick and international chair Stefan Rizor have been re-elected for a second term with Beswick also set to take on additional responsibilities as the firm's head of markets internationally.

Beswick (pictured), who was also the firm's UK managing partner between 2003 and the end of last year, will serve another three-year term as chief executive from 1 May.

Rizor will serve a two-year term from 1 May. Rizor took on the role last year after Tomas Daga stepped down from the job to handle client commitments for Spanish pharmaceutical company Grifols, the firm's biggest client.

The head of markets position, which Beswick is now taking on, was left vacant when former post holder Greg Leyshon became the firm's head of business transactions in January.

The business transactions position itself was freed up by the appointment of Ray Berg as managing partner, who replaced Beswick at the start of this year.

The head of markets position was originally created in 2009 to deliver OC's sector strategy, but was reviewed after Leyshon moved into his new role. Beswick will fill the international elements of that job, while in the UK domestic head of markets responsibilities will fall to business development director Fiona Sigee with the overall role now split between her and Beswick.

Beswick said: "A lot of what I will be doing internationally involves all of the national businesses, sectors and clients and trying to develop those. It doesn't matter too much if we combine that in two roles or one."

He added that the priorities in OC's new five-year strategy, which came into force this year, were to make sure the firm's international network had a greater focus on the its eight main sectors: digital business, energy and utilities, financial services, life sciences and healthcare, real estate and infrastructure, recruitment, retail and transport and automotive.

"Over the last five years we have set our stall out on going to market through the sectors," he said. "We have just become much more knowledgeable about the industries in which our clients work."

Beswick also told Legal Week that after rapid international expansion in recent years the firm now had offices everywhere it "must be", but as part of the firm's new five-year strategy three jurisdictions had been identified that would be "nice to be in".

Beswick, who declined to name the jurisdictions, said: "We will sit back and if something floats in our direction in those places we would engage with that."