Gowans, who has led the office for three years, will return to the firm’s
Recent notable transactions include advising Ubiquity Software Corporation on its £76m recommended takeover by Avaya, work on the admission to the Alternative Investment Market of Entelos and Planet Group and advising Iridex Corpon on the UK and French aspects of its $28m (£14m) acquisition of the laser aesthetics business of Laserscope.
OC’s Silicon Valley office housed current managing partner Simon Beswick from 2001 to 2003 before he returned to the
UK-qualified Wilson, who prior to joining OC was a lawyer with Vodafone’s in-house team, has been with the firm since 2000. He said: “With my experience in the