Hogan Lovells creates client relationship management role on global management committee
The Anglo-US firm has appointed the current co-head of its life sciences group as managing partner of clients and industries
March 15, 2016 at 06:18 AM
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Hogan Lovells has ramped up its efforts to improve the management of it key client relationships with the introduction of a managing partner of clients and industries to its firm-wide management committee.
Ina Brock,co-head of the firm's life sciences industry sector group, joins the firm's international management committee as managing partner of clients and industries.
She is currently a litigation and arbitration partner in the firm's Munich office.
The committee sets the strategic direction and overses the business operations of the firm. It is made up of the heads of Hogan Lovells' five practice groups and five administrative regions.
Brock will be responsible for the global management of key client relationships at the Anglo-US firm. She will also focus on improving the firm's market reach and impact of its industry sector groups, which include aerospace and defence, energy and natural resources, financial institutions, infrastructure, insurance, life sciences and real estate.
Her appointment will last three years and she will continue practicing during this time.
Asher Rubin, current co-head of the life sciences group alongside Brock, will become the sole global head of Hogan Lovells' life sciences group as a result of Brock's appointment.
Hogan Lovells chief executive Steve Immelt has recently made improving client engagement one of the firm's top priorities.
The transatlantic firm has been asking its clients to rate it service as a way of finding areas where it can improve and stay ahead of market trends.
Immelt said: "We engage clients in a pro-active way and listen to what they are seeing in the sectors they are active in."
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