Bertrand Senechal joins CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats as partner
CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats has reinforced its equity capital markets practice with the arrival of new partner Bertrand Senechal.
Litigation powerhouse loses legendary founding partner
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan recently announced the retirement of name partner Eric Emanuel, who founded the litigation boutique with John Quinn in 1986.
Based in Los Angeles, Emanuel handled a wide range of cases, taking in securities, antitrust and real estate as well as IP and torts. In more recent years he transitioned into a more pastoral and strategic role, which often involved training younger lawyers.
Fellow name partners William Urquhart and Kathleen Sullivan, who joined in 1988 and 2005 respectively, remain at the 800-lawyer firm, which has not announced a change in name. John Quinn remains as managing partner, and has no plans to retire. “When I have any partner over the age of 50 who can beat me in a foot race in any distance,” he told The American Lawyer last year, “then we will start looking at succession planning.”
Meanwhile, the firm continues to grow: it plans to make hires in restructuring, bankruptcy, hard IP and white-collar defence. As part of the ongoing spate of private-practice hires of Department of Justice (DoJ) luminaries, Quinn Emanuel recently hired Sandra Moser, former head of the fraud section of the DoJ’s criminal division, and re-hired Manisha Sheth, who was head of the economic justice division of the New York state attorney-general’s office.
CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats has reinforced its equity capital markets practice with the arrival of new partner Bertrand Senechal.
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