Hicksons

Hicksons

DEREK Luxford has moved from Phillips Fox’s Sydney office, where he has worked for the last 21 years, to the smaller firm of Hicksons. The entire Phillips Fox transport & trade team from Sydney has moved with him. Hicksons has well-established practices in insurance, commercial dispute resolution, corporate/commercial and intellectual property.
As a result of the move, there will no longer be a transport and trade practice at the Sydney office of Phillips Fox.

Pysdens

KAY Pysden, formerly head of the transport practice at Davies Lavery, has left the firm together with the rest of the four-strong transport team to set up an independent transport practice trading as Pysdens. The move, the result of an amicable agreement, will allow the new firm to offer an approach more suited to marine and transit work, says Pysden.

Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz

MICHAEL Davies has joined the New York office of Chicago's Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz as a shareholder. He will continue his general commercial litigation and arbitration practice before US courts and international tribunals, with particular emphasis on international business and trade.

Piper Alderman

TRANSPORT and marine insurance litigator Frazer Hunt has joined Sydney law firm Piper Alderman, where he will head up the transport and trade group. He is joined by two associates, Troy Anderson and Chris Keane, and by paralegal Amanda Lazarou.

Landwell Global/PWC

LANDWELL Global, an international law firm operating under the PriceWaterhouseCooper banner, is to develop a maritime law department in fifteen of its Spanish offices. The departments will be housed in Landwell’s port-based offices, and will be headed by Daniel Bosch. Services will cover all aspects of maritime law, from asset finance to operational matters.

Ince & Co

DAVID Baker has joined Ince & Co as a partner. An international ship finance lawyer, he joins from Norton Rose where he was responsible for developing the firm’s Piraeus ship finance practice.

Dr Harten & Partner

SHIPPING lawyer Carsten Grau has left the Bremen office of Dr Schackow & Partner to become a partner with Dr Harten & Partner in Hamburg.

Kennedys

MARY Thomson writes, “I am now at a new firm just eighteen months after you reported that I had joined the Hong Kong office of Denton Wilde Sapte who, you may have heard, have recently closed their four Asian offices.

“I am now a partner at the Hong Kong office of Kennedys, an insurance-driven UK international law firm. Looking forward to a new and long lease of life in the practice of insurance, transport and banking litigation.”

Anad & Noraini

JAMES P David has left DLA in Singapore to establish a dedicated shipping department at Anad & Noraini in Kuala Lumpur. He says, “After working in Singapore and London for ten years (with Clyde & Co previously), it’s a pleasure to be back in the jurisdiction of my birth.

Araujo Zaratin Danielides Advogados

Araujo Zaratin Danielides Advogados has moved to new premises, and can now be contacted at
R. Haddock Lobo,
1307 - cj. 54,
01414-003
Sao Paulo – SP,
Brazil.
Tel. (55) (11) 3064-3084

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