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Cooley LLP announced that Kathleen Pakenham has joined the firm as a partner in its national tax practice. She will be based in New York. Pakenham is a tax litigator with extensive federal tax [...]

Simmons & Simmons has promoted eight to its partnership including Darren Oswick who is based in the London tax deparment. Darren joined the firm as a trainee in 1999, and qualified in 2001 [...]

Leonard Schneidman, formerly of Pepper Hamilton LLP, recently joined the Boston office of WTAS LLC as a Managing Director in its International Tax practice. Schneidman brings to WTAS a wealth of [...]

John L. Harrington, who recently served as international tax counsel for the U.S. Department of Treasury, has joined Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, the law firm announced today. Prior to [...]

Willis Group Holdings, the global insurance broker, has announced the appointment of Michael K. Neborak as Executive Vice President and Group Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Neborak, who will join [...]

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Ireland’s largest professional services firm, has announced the admission of Yvonne Thompson as a financial services tax partner effective 1 July 2010. Speaking at [...]

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP (Blakes), one of Canada’s leading business law firms, has announced that Edwin G. Kroft, Q.C., and Deborah J. Toaze have joined the Tax Controversy & [...]

Eversheds has hired partner Karolina Stawowska to head up the newly established tax law practice in Warsaw. Karolina comes from PricewaterhouseCoopers tax department where she worked with the [...]

BDO Hong Kong has appointed William Chan as a partner in its PRC tax division. William brings with him 20 years of experience in tax services. He previously worked with big four firms in the UK, [...]

Patton Boggs LLP has tapped veteran tax attorney Richard E. Andersen to serve as managing partner of its New York office, citing his extensive experience in the nation’s leading business and [...]