Mills Oakley Lawyers has appointed Clarendon Lawyers director Mark Bland as a partner in its financial services practice.

Bland will head up the division and has bought across with him a team of lawyers. He and his team bring with them a wealth of experience in providing advisory, transactional, regulatory and other dispute resolution services to institutions in the financial services industry. In recent years they have advised fund managers, superannuation trustees, financial advisers and other AFS licence holders.

Mills Oakley’s CEO, John Nerurker, said the appointments come at a time where the financial services industry is facing an extraordinary amount of regulatory and legislative change and commercial pressures from continuing economic uncertainty. “Mark is highly respected within the industry and will make a tremendous addition to the firm,” he said. “We are acting on some very exciting and challenging matters and it is a huge plus to be able to welcome such a talented lawyer at the top of his game.”