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Gilbert + Tobin managing partner Danny Gilbert sent round an e-mail Friday announcing the appointment of five partners as the firm ramps up operations in anticipation of opening a new office in Melbourne.

Of the five partners that have just been recruited, IT & telecommunications specialists Michael Caplan and Cameron Whittfield will likely work out of Gilbert + Tobin’s new Melbourne office when it is up and running.

Caplan joins the firm from Blake Dawson and has a strong relationship with Telstra, having worked on the telco giant’s outsourcing of Medibank, AGL and Tabcorp’s telecommunications; NAB’s IT & telecommunications, and Telstra’s renegotiation of its long term IT Operations Services Agreement (ITOpSA) with IBM.

Whittfield spent his early career working for Russell McVeagh. Cameron also spent time with Vinson & Elkins in London and Gide Loyrette Nouel in Paris advising on corporate transactions, cross-border M&A, telecommunications reform and commercial arrangements.

Martyn Taylor has joined the firm’s competition & regulation practice group in Sydney. He previously worked in the competition teams of Mallesons and Freehills and has more than 15 years regulatory and commercial experience, obtained principally within the Asia-Pacific region.

Catherine Dermody, a regulatory lawyer in the competition & regulation group, and Tim Gole, a lawyer who focuses on large and complex TMT transactions in the corporate, communications & technology group, have both been promoted to partner.

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