In Pictures: New Decade Opens to a Booming Hiring Market
Hiring, promotions and office launches are all in rude health as 2020 opens, with key moves for Bird & Bird, Macfarlanes, Trowers and others.
January 17, 2020 at 10:01 AM
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Trowers & Hamlins partner Ayda Habboush has been appointed to the board of the Arab Bankers Association (ABA). Habboush has been at Trowers for about 13 years and is part of the firm's Islamic finance group and has a particular focus on the corporate structuring of Shariah transactions.
International law firms and businesses have made major employee moves over the last week. These are the firms and businesses that have seen recent changes.
- Rosenblatt, Trowers & Hamlins
- Bird & Bird
- Town Legal
- Macfarlanes
- Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
- Arthur Cox
- Duane Morris
- Loyens & Loeff
- Withers KhattarWong
- Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy
- Transportation app Gett, Fieldfisher
- Lewis Silkin
- Borenius
Almost 30 positions have been filled at these companies. From partners of white collar practice to general counsel of a mobile app company, these international firms and businesses sure have been busy.
Are you interested in learning more about who filled these positions and the role they will play in their company? Read more in this Legal Week article.
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