Legislation agency Macfarlanes has introduced 9 new companions, together with a brand new companion within the agency’s finance division.
From 1 April 2025, Pinar Celebi will turn into a finance companion, whereas Caja Griesenbach will likely be a companion in competitors, and Greg James and Alice Temkin will likely be company and M&A companions.
Celebi acts on cross-border finance transactions, with specific expertise in leveraged acquisition finance, advising non-public capital corporations, company debtors and funding banks on multi-layered debt constructions.
Griesenbach acts on UK and European competitors regulation issues, together with merger management, antitrust investigations and personal enforcement actions.
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James advises on a broad vary of company issues together with private and non-private M&A, joint ventures, ECM transactions, restructurings and different basic company advisory work, whereas Temkin is a company lawyer advising on home and cross-border issues, together with non-public firm M&A and personal fairness transactions, group restructurings and basic company advisory issues.
Elsewhere, Iskra Doukova and Mark Stichbury will turn into companions within the non-public shopper apply.
Doukova advises worldwide households and trustees on cross-border tax, structuring, succession planning, household governance and transparency initiatives. In the meantime, Stichbury advises internationally primarily based people, entrepreneurs, household workplaces and trustees on cross-border tax, belief and succession planning points.
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Sarah Ling will turn into a tax and reward companion, Sindhuja Shriananda will likely be a companion in actual property, and Jacob Ward will likely be a companion in litigation and dispute decision.
Ling advises firms, partnerships and people on UK and cross-border tax issues, whereas Shriananda has experience throughout all kinds of economic actual property issues with a specific concentrate on growth within the dwelling and life sciences sectors.
Ward specialises in home and worldwide litigation, with a specific concentrate on belief disputes, worldwide succession and property disputes and fraud.
“Selling new companions is a key a part of our agency’s progress, and I’m delighted to welcome this yr’s cohort to the partnership,” mentioned Sebastian Prichard Jones, senior companion.
“Their experience spans a broad mixture of apply areas, reflecting the varied strengths of our agency and the alternatives we see throughout the market.”
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