HFW has elected aviation partner Jeremy Shebson as its new managing partner and handed senior partner Richard Crump another three-year term at the helm of the firm.

Shebson, one of eight partners who joined HFW from Barlow Lyde & Gilbert in 2011, will start a two-year term as managing partner on 1 April, succeeding Marcus Bowman, who is retiring from the partnership.

While at HFW, Shebson has split his time between the firm's Sao Paulo and London bases. The firm has had a presence in Brazil since 2011, when it took over Barlows' local arm prior to that firm's merger with Clyde & Co, and last year agreed an association with newly established Brazil firm CAL.