Freehills has promoted four of its lawyers to partner as the firm prepares for further growth across a range of areas. The four new partners will take up their roles from 1 January, 2012.
“We are seeing a strong demand in areas such as energy and resources, employment and industrial relations, banking, infrastructure, corporate regulatory and dispute resolution,” said Freehills CEO Gavin Bell. “These appointments reflect our anticipated growth in these areas.”
The new partners are: Caroline Cox (litigation) in Sydney, Ben Dudley (employee relations) also in Sydney, Martin MacDonald (banking & projects) in Melbourne and Juan-Jose Zentner (banking & projects) also in Melbourne.
Freehills has already promoted eight lawyers to its partnership this year; six in July and two in January.
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