Lawyer Moves RECENT APPOINTMENTS FROM ACROSS THE GLOBE Dentons has appointed Michelle Segaert to its corporate practice as a partner, the second such corporate partner to join the firm since June. Segaert has over 20 years’ experience advising on corporate and financial services matters, specialising in financial services regulation and investment funds. She advises on regulatory compliance projects for banks and insurers, and her significant investment funds practice provides advice to mid-market fund managers on the establishment of property, credit, carbon, crypto, venture, water and private equity funds. She also advises on financial services licensing, consumer credit, payments systems, digital assets, anti-money laundering, ESG reporting, credit reporting and financial product advice and distribution arrangements (including credit and insurance). She has extensive experience working with regulators including ASIC, APRA and AUSTRAC. Saegert commented on her appointment: “I am thrilled to join Kym Livesley and Caroline Snow who together lead the Dentons’ corporate team, along with the other corporate partners. Dentons has a depth and breadth across the Australian practice which will service our clients well and provide great opportunities for collaboration.” National law firm Irwin Mitchell has expanded its construction and engineering team with the recruitment of a new partner, Joanna Preece, who will be based in the firm’s London office. The appointment takes the specialist construction team to 15, with four partners and two trainees. The team is led by Mark Clinton and sits within Irwin Mitchell’s property division, which will now number 30 partners and over 150 qualified lawyers. Preece’s appointment is also a boost to Irwin Mitchell’s property team in London, where partner Will Scott recently joined the real estate disputes team. Preece joins Irwin Mitchell from Maples Teesdale LLP, where she was a noncontentious construction partner. She has significant experience providing advice and solutions on potential deal issues to a wide range of clients on large development schemes and is responsible for drafting and negotiating building contracts and the full suite of construction documents. She has also acted on a number of high-profile developments, including advising on the regeneration of Shepherds Bush Market, the redevelopment of Earls Court and Olympia and the financing for the purchase and development of 354-358 Oxford Street, Oxbourne House. Dentons Bolsters Corporate Offering with New Partner Hire in Sydney Irwin Mitchell Adds New Partner to Construction Team Sydney, Australia Dentons London, United Kingdom Irwin Mitchell Germany & Global DLA Piper Global law firm DLA Piper International has appointed Kirsten Lange as a nonexecutive director to its board. Lange previously spent 22 years at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), ultimately becoming partner and managing director, responsible for a global practice area. During her time with BCG, she offered strategic counsel to a wide range of companies and industries. She has developed an international career background that includes running the Shanghai office for BCG for two years. After many years consulting in the industrial practice, Lange moved into operational C-level leadership in a global engineering business and later was CEO of a machine building company. She took on her first NED role in 2015 on the Supervisory Board and Audit and Strategy Committee of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen. She now sits on the Board of ATS Automation, a Toronto -and New York Stock Exchange-listed company where she is Chair of the ESG committee. “With over 30 years of international management experience, along with her diverse portfolio in board environments, Kirsten will bring invaluable challenge, insight and support to the Board in governing our ambitious strategy,” said Jon Hayes, global cochair at DLA Piper. DLA Piper Appoints New Non-Executive Director to Board 10 LAWYER MONTHLY OCTOBER 2023
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