Macfarlanes announces nine new partners
Law firm Macfarlanes has announced nine new partners, including a new partner in the firm’s finance division.
From 1 April 2025, Pinar Celebi will become a finance partner, while Caja Griesenbach will be a partner in competition, and Greg James and Alice Temkin will be corporate and M&A partners.
Celebi acts on cross-border finance transactions, with particular experience in leveraged acquisition finance, advising private capital firms, corporate borrowers and investment banks on multi-layered debt structures.
Griesenbach acts on UK and European competition law matters, including merger control, antitrust investigations and private enforcement actions.
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James advises on a broad range of corporate matters including public and private M&A, joint ventures, ECM transactions, restructurings and other general corporate advisory work, while Temkin is a corporate lawyer advising on domestic and cross-border matters, including private company M&A and private equity transactions, group restructurings and general corporate advisory matters.
Elsewhere, Iskra Doukova and Mark Stichbury will become partners in the private client practice.
Doukova advises international families and trustees on cross-border tax, structuring, succession planning, family governance and transparency initiatives. Meanwhile, Stichbury advises internationally based individuals, entrepreneurs, family offices and trustees on cross-border tax, trust and succession planning issues.
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Sarah Ling will become a tax and reward partner, Sindhuja Shriananda will be a partner in real estate, and Jacob Ward will be a partner in litigation and dispute resolution.
Ling advises companies, partnerships and individuals on UK and cross-border tax matters, while Shriananda has expertise across a wide variety of commercial real estate matters with a particular focus on development in the living and life sciences sectors.
Ward specialises in domestic and international litigation, with a particular focus on trust disputes, international succession and estate disputes and fraud.
“Promoting new partners is a key part of our firm’s growth, and I am delighted to welcome this year’s cohort to the partnership,” said Sebastian Prichard Jones, senior partner.
“Their expertise spans a broad mix of practice areas, reflecting the diverse strengths of our firm and the opportunities we see across the market.”
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