Lawyer Monthly - December 2022

Squire Patton Boggs has announced the appointment of Carlos Blanco Morillo as its latest partner in the firm’s Madrid-based corporate law practice. Blanco is a leading private equity lawyer who joins SPB from Roca Junyent, where he served as head of its Madrid corporate and M&A office and previously as its office managing partner. Mr. Blanco arrives with three associates. As a recognised private equity specialist with more than 15 years’ worth of experience in high-level Spanish domestic and international corporate transactions, Blanco’s hire furthers the firm’s strategic expansion across Europe. He joins two weeks after SPB’s announcement of a Dublin office to be headed by private equity and corporate partner Dennis Agnew. “Squire Patton Boggs has shaken up the legal landscape in Spain and is now the emerging powerhouse for mid-market private equity and M&A in the region and across Europe,” Blanco said in a statement on his appointment. “I look forward to being part of the team that takes it to the next level.” Blanco joins SPB’s Madrid corporate and M&A division alongside an intake of three associates. Dechert has announced its appointment of Maria Sit as Managing Partner for its Hong Kong office. Sit, a highly regarded lawyer who specialises in financial services regulation and complex civil litigation and dispute resolution, initially joined Dechert’s Hong Kong office in 2019 as partner in the firm’s Trial, Investigations and Securities Group. Thereafter, she was quickly promoted to the firm’s Asia head and global co-leader of its White Collar, Compliance and Investigations practice. In addition to her experience as former in-house counsel at the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong, Sit has gained more than two decades of litigation experience focusing on complex commercial litigation and boasts an impressive track record of representing clients on crucial matters in mainland China and Hong Kong, as well as a number of other jurisdictions around the world. Eric Deltour, head of Dechert’s Asian offices, described Sit as “a highly esteemed lawyer who has demonstrated strong leadership skills and dedication to her work, clients and the firm’s overall growth and success”. Squire Patton Boggs Bolsters Madrid Private Equity and M&A Practice With New Partner Dechert Hires New Hong Kong Managing Partner Hong Kong Dechert Madrid, Spain Squire Patton Boggs LAWYERMOVES 9

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