Charles Russell Speechlys has announced the appointment of three dispute resolution specialists across its global offices, as well as key hires in private client and investment fund law.
In Dubai, Sara Sheffield has joined the team where she will continue to focus on litigation and arbitration, with a particular emphasis on financial crime, fraud, asset tracing and recovery, and contentious insolvency. She is dual-qualified in England and Wales and Australia (Queensland).
Pierre Bydzovsky is a banking and commercial litigation expert who has joined the firm in Geneva. He focuses on white-collar crime cases, mutual assistance proceedings and sports law.
In Hong Kong, new hire Ray Ng brings over 30 years of experience of handling onshore and offshore disputes. Ray specialises in the resolution of multi-jurisdictional commercial disputes relating to shareholder rights, directors’ duties, corporate governance, cross-border restructuring and insolvency, trusts and commercial fraud.
The firm has also welcomed private client specialist Simon Weil to the team in London. He specialises in tax planning, trusts, philanthropy and charities.
Finally, Tobias Niehl has joined the firm in Luxembourg, bringing more than 20 years of experience in structuring, setting-up and re-organising unregulated and regulated investment funds.
Charles Russell Speechlys’ managing partner Simon Ridpath, said: ‘Despite a challenging year, the firm has navigated through the disruption caused by the pandemic and remains on track with our strategy and these five new hires will increase our capabilities in key growth areas across our international office network. We are delighted to welcome all five to the firm and look forward to working with them as we continue to guide our clients through the challenges that are still to come.’
