Big six law firms Minter Ellison and Ashurst have hired new partners and a “guru” academic has joined Gilbert + Tobin
Big six law firms Minter Ellison and Ashurst have been busy on the hiring front, adding two partners each this week.
The head of Ashurst’s tax practice in Australia, Costa Koutsis, said the pair would help provide a point of difference to other large law firms by working together with its risk advisory division.Mr Koutsis said most prelitigation advice, including on issues such as governance and risk, was done by the big four with the law firms handling any litigation. Ashurst would be able to do both by working together with its risk advisory division.
Minters CEO Virginia Briggs said the appointments “reflect business priorities in key areas”. She noted that infrastructure spending, both public and private, was up and that private equity had “risen in prominence as a key source of funding in Australian capital markets”.Constitutional law guru Anne Twomey of Sydney University has taken up a consultancy at leading commercial firm Gilbert + Tobin after quitting full-time academic life.
We hear there is much gnashing of teeth behind the scenes at G+T, but – for the moment – they are keeping it in house. Damn.joining the Hong Kong Final Court of Appeal as a non-permanent judge.
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