Linklaters has invited four banking partners to join the partnership in response to client demand. The new partners and their specialisms are as follows:
David Ballegeer (Brussels)
David graduated with a law degree from the University of Ghent in 1994 and an LLM from Harvard Law School in 1999. He joined the Linklaters' Brussels office in 2006. David’s main area of focus is banking transactions, but he has significant experience in the equity capital markets field.
Ben Crosse (Madrid)
Ben graduated with a Mediaeval History and French degree from St Andrews University in 1996. He joined Linklaters as a trainee in 1999. Upon qualification in 2001, he worked as an associate in the banking practice in London. He transferred to the international finance practice of the Madrid office in February 2004, where he was promoted to managing associate in 2005. Ben has experience in advising banks and corporate clients on a wide range of banking transactions.
Danelle Le Cren (New York)
Danelle graduated with a law degree from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand in 1994. She joined Linklaters' New York office in 2001. She was promoted to counsel in 2007. Danelle’s has extensive experience in advising clients in domestic and cross-border finance transactions and related restructurings, including acquisition financings, infrastructure and project finance transactions, asset finance transactions and numerous other global financial products.
Toby Grimstone (London)
Toby graduated with a degree in Jurisprudence from Oxford in 1997, and qualified into the banking practice in 2000 after training at Linklaters. He was seconded to the Singapore office from 2003 to 2006. Toby’s primary focus is on mainstream banking and the emerging markets, as well as structured trade finance.
In addition, Matthieu Duplat (Brussels), Howard Lam (Hong Kong) and Kathryn Merryfield (Paris) have been promoted to counsel within the banking practice. Counsel status recognises the major contribution made by senior lawyers with significant technical expertise who take on additional practice, client, know-how or team management responsibilities, alongside partners in their groups:
Robert Elliott, global head of banking commented:
“This year we have an outstanding group of people joining banking. The calibre and quality of these new partners further illustrates our depth and breadth of resources, commitment and expertise both from a product and geographic perspective which allows us to offer the best quality of service to all our clients worldwide."
For further information, please contact:
Tasneem Watson on (44-20) 7456 4397 or tasneem.watson@linklaters.com
Sarah Peters on (44-20) 7456 2153 or sarah.peters@linklaters.com
