Pinsent Masons’ inaugural appointments

Pauline Egan and Alastair Mitchell have been appointed as the firm's first external board member and chief operating officer respectively.

Pauline Egan joins the firm's global Board as a non-executive board member. She will combine that role with a non-executive appointment at the UK subsidiary of Allied Irish Bank and the Governorship of Morley College. Prior to these roles Egan enjoyed a highly successful career at the Royal Bank of Canada where she worked as head of London and most recently head of strategy & business management for the Wealth Management Division.

Alastair Mitchell is a chartered accountant (FCA) who has worked in professional services for over 30 years. The bulk of his career to date has been with Linklaters for whom he worked between 1999 to 2012, and spent five years serving as the firm's UK chief operating officer. Mitchell joins from Holman Fenwick Willam (HFW) which he joined in 2012 as COO. He will be Pinsent Masons' first COO and will sit on the firm's Operations Committee. They also follow the appointment of Rainer Kreiffels and Joanne Ellis to the Pinsent Masons board in November last year.