His new role will focus on supporting the clients he has worked so closely with for many years; while continuing to assist partners and their teams and remaining a strong advocate and ambassador for the firm.
A new team of four senior lawyers, who will be based in Singapore and Sydney and led by Partner Robert Williams, arrive at the firm to expand its hotels and hospitality practice in the Asia-Pacific region.
“Whilst we expect the ongoing macro-economic challenges triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic to impact our business this year, we have undertaken a series of measures to mitigate this impact and we remain confident that our strategy of sector-focussed, quality growth will continue to serve the firm well going forward”.
The promotion of these six lawyers takes the firm’s total number of partners to 173.
Our managing partners, Chris Lowe and Lothar Wegner, offer a message of support regarding the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lothar Wegener: “This is a good result for the firm, improving as it does on last year’s result for the same period, and clearly demonstrating the ongoing success of the sector-focussed model that drives WFW”.
Charles has advised on numerous deals that have won “Deal of the Year” awards from highly regarded sector publications.
Prior to joining WFW, Simon was head of Simmons & Simmons’ London Debt Capital Market Group and also previously led Cleary Gottlieb’s English law capital markets practice.
Firm on track to meet growth targets
We’re pleased to have increased our fee income once again in line with our budget for 2017/18. It demonstrates the ongoing success of our integrated sector focused strategy”.
The move reflects the firm’s continued investment in Asia and our commitment to providing outstanding services to clients. We are excited to do business and service our clients from this new location.
Our alliance with WTL is another step forward in our strategic focus on strengthening our services offering within our core sectors.