Withers has reappointed its longstanding managing director, Margaret Robertson, for another three-year term, effective from the beginning of July. No other candidate was put forward so Robertson, who was appointed on 24 May, did not require the usual 75% majority vote from the partnership. Robertson became sole managing director in 2007. Before that she was head of litigation from 1992 before going on to become strategy partner in 2000.
Allen & Overy has hired DLA Piper intellectual property partner Krystyna Szczepanowska-Kozłowska to head the practice in Poland. She will be based in the firm’s Warsaw office. He practice focuses on patent, trademark, copyright, competition and personal data protection law.
