Squire Sanders has announced a new senior appointment in its corporate and energy practice in Perth.

Clare Pope joins the firm as Of Counsel and was previously at Herbert Smith Freehills in London, Tokyo, and Singapore. She also spent time on secondment to the upstream exploration and access team at British multinational oil and gas company, BP plc, principally focused on its successful Uruguay access.

She is an experienced, dual-qualified English and Western Australian corporate lawyer, with considerable transactional and advisory experience in the oil and gas and hard rock mining sectors and has advised clients on their activities in a number of jurisdictions worldwide including South East Asia, Africa, South America, and Eastern Europe.

Other Squire Sanders hires this year include partner Tom Lennox and a team of financial services lawyers who joined the firm’s office in Sydney in September; construction partner Avendra Singh; corporate and technology partner Richard Horton; construction and projects Of Counsel, Fabio Fior, and Josh Clarke, Of Counsel in project finance.