Big moves at Trowers & Hamlins
Trowers & Hamlins announced the appointments of two new partners Bill Jeffer ies and Lucas Pitts to its Dubai office. The firm also appointed Guy Danalis as resident managing partner at their Abu Dhabi office.
Corporate partner Bill Jefferies joins the firm’s Dubai office from the Bahrain office.
Jefferies will head Trowers’ corporate finance practice in the UAE. He brings with him ten years’ experience of acting for Gulf-based private equity clients on cross-border investment mandates, both within the MENA region and globally. He also regularly advises corporate clients on M&A and capital markets matters across a broad range of sectors. As well as working to grow the practice in the UAE, Jefferies will continue to work with colleagues in Bahrain to service a number of the firm’s key clients there.
Lucas Pitts joins the Dubai office from Trowers & Hamlins’ London office, where he is a partner in the Dispute Resolution and Litigation department.
Pitts is a commercial dispute resolution and arbitration specialist with a focus on international banking disputes, asset tracing and fraud. He has represented clients in a variety of international arbitration and court-based disputes across jurisdictions including Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Mauritius, Uganda, Ivory Coast and South Sudan. In the Emirates, he will be responsible for developing the firm’s international commercial disputes resolution practice, focusing entirely on high-value commercial and financial services disputes.
Guy Danalis has worked for the firm for more than four years and specialises in corporate and commercial law in a range of sectors. He has extensive experience advising local and international entities on transactions in the UAE, including a number of high profile mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures. Danalis is also a specialist in the corporate aspects of large scale property development projects. He has previously worked for law firm Minter Ellison in Brisbane and also was as an in-house lawyer for Daikyo, a Japanese company.
