Eversheds Sutherland makes more post-merger leadership appointments
Firm appoints new office senior partners and extends term for international board chair
June 27, 2017 at 04:42 AM
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Eversheds Sutherland has made a series of leadership appointments, naming new senior partners in London and Birmingham and extending the term of the chair of its international board.
Global co-head of financial services disputes and investigations Matthew Allen (pictured) has been handed the London senior partner role, while corporate partner Mark Beardmore has been appointed as the firm's new Birmingham senior partner.
Allen has replaced financial services partner Pamela Thompson, who had held the London senior partner role since 2014, while Beardmore is succeeding employment partner David Beswick. Thompson and Beswick are remaining with the firm and will return to full-time fee earning.
London senior partner Allen said: "London is where we have our largest office, with 400 lawyers including over 100 partners, and it is also a natural crossroads for global business. The combination with Sutherland Asbill & Brennan has served to re-emphasise its importance and the great international opportunities open to us."
Separately, the firm has also extended the term of its international board chairman Alan Murphy by six months. His four-year term expired at the end of April, but it has been extended to ensure leadership continuity in the light of Eversheds' recent tie-up with US firm Sutherland.
The board is made up of the managing partners of the firm's network of non-financially integrated offices, known as Eversheds International.
Murphy, who is managing partner of Eversheds Ireland, succeeded the firm's former CEO David Gray as the board's chair following Gray's retirement. Gray had established the board in 2009 to promote cohesion and integration across the firm's international offices.
Murphy's term will now end in November, at which point the board will elect a successor.
The news comes after the merger of Eversheds and Sutherland went live on 1 February this year. The new firm is led by co-CEOs Lee Ranson and Mark Wasserman, who recently launched a transatlantic associate secondment programme at the firm's first post-merger partner conference.
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