* Dr Philip Marsden, a senior research fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, has been appointed non-executive director of the Office of Fair Trading (OFT). He will serve a four-and-half term on the OFT’s board, which he will join in October. Marsden is a specialist in competition law and has practised in Canada, Japan and London having qualified as a barrister and solicitor at the Law Society of Upper Canada in 1991. From 1994 to 1996 he was a case officer with the economics and international affairs branch of the Canadian Competition Bureau. His main areas of research are abuse of dominance, international competition issues and World Trade Organisation proceedings. He is director of the institute’s Competition Law Forum.

* Dick Tyler, the outgoing managing partner of CMS Cameron McKenna, has been appointed executive partner of the CMS network of European law firms. He will take over from Robert Derry-Evans — himself a former Camerons managing partner — when Derry-Evans retires in September. Top of Tyler’s agenda will be a programme to forge closer ties between the nine firms that make up the CMS network. Partners across the network have voted in measures designed to achieve closer integration and alignment across the member firms. These will include a new conflicts of interest policy. “Our commitment to our clients and to each other is to deliver consistent and high quality service across the whole of CMS,” Derry Evans says. “There is a great opportunity for us to develop a distinctive European offering.”

* Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has boosted its London office with the arrival of Hilary Winter, a specialist in corporate law, from Jones Day, a rival US firm. Winter’s practice covers mergers and acquisitions and general corporate advice as well as equity capital markets work, including initial public offerings and secondary fund-raisings. The move will be a wrench for Winter. She joined legacy London firm Gouldens as a trainee in 1984 and stayed on at the firm after it merged with Jones Day in 2003. Mark Bartlam, the head of Orrick’s London office, said: “Hilary is an impressive high-quality equity capital markets and corporate M&A partner and this represents a significant addition in the growth of these key practices in London.” Winter is the second corporate partner to join Orrick’s London office in recent months. Last October Lena Hodge joined from the Mintz Levin.

* Harvey Ingram, a Midlands-based law firm, has unveiled a new management team, with Simon Astill becoming managing partner and Stephen Woolfe assuming the senior partner role. The changeover will take place on April 1. Astill, who specialises in corporate law, will take over Chris Finlay while Woolfe, the former president of the Leicester Chamber of Commerce, will step up to senior partner in place of Phillip Lane. At the same time, Robert Rose, a medical negligence specialist, will assume the new role of deputy managing partner. Astill said: “I would like to thank both Chris Finlay and Phillip Lane for their tremendous work over the past seven years and look forward to working with Robert Rose and Stephen Woolfe to build on the progress made during that period.”

* BakerPlatt, a Jersey-based firm, has chosen Jim Scott for the new post of group practice director. Scott is the former director of finance at Ogier, which is also headquartered in Jersey. In his new role, Scott will be responsible for operations at BakerPlatt. The qualified accountant has spent most of his career working in Jersey. At Ogier he was a member of its executive board and helped to oversee a period of significant expansion for the firm. In 2003 Ogier merged with the Cayman Islands firm Boxalls.

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