Norton Rose Add 15 To Partnership

During the course of the current financial year, a total of 37 partners have joined Norton Rose Group.


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Peter Martyr, Group Chief Executive, Norton Rose Group commented:

?The geographical spread and number of promotions reflect the continued enlargement of the Group?s practice internationally. We are particularly delighted that seven of the promotions are women?.

The promotions will create five new partners in Asia Pacific (two in Canberra, one in Shanghai, one in Singapore and one in Sydney), four new partners in London, four in Europe (Amsterdam, Athens, Munich and Paris) and two in the Middle East (Abu Dhabi and Bahrain).

There will be six new partners in banking, four in corporate finance, three in dispute resolution, one in real estate and one in Occupational Health and Safety.

Details of the new partners in our region are as follows:

Ben Allen (Dispute Resolution, Canberra )
Ben is a dispute resolution lawyer, who has acted in a broad range of commercial disputes relating to contracts, corporations law, equity, product liability, guarantees, commercial leases, real property, intellectual property, government and trade practices. His experience includes managing both large and small-scale matters in the Federal, Supreme and District Courts, dispute negotiation and mediation as well as a focus on arbitration in the major institutional arbitration regimes both domestically and within the Asia-Pacific region.

Robert Driver (Banking, Singapore)
Robert is a lawyer in the banking team with wide ranging contentious and non-contentious experience in shipping, offshore and commodities. He frequently acts for banks, shipowners, oil companies and traders in relation to a variety of shipping, offshore and trading matters.


Sun Hong (Corporate Finance, Shanghai)
Sun Hong’s main area of practice is corporate finance, covering foreign direct investment, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and corporate transactions involving PRC assets or entities. Sun Hong also has extensive experience of advising the clients on PRC regulatory aspects of banking transactions.