Three lawyers from Asia are among the firm's newest partners
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Ince & Co has promoted nine lawyers and recruited one to its global partnership.
Among the new partners are three lawyers in Asia, who are based in three different offices across the region. The appointments augment the firm’s contentious practice and continues to build its transactional capabilities in its sectors and regions of focus, Ince & Co said.
The newly promoted partners in Asia are Maureen Poh in Singapore, and Eileen Tang in Shanghai. New recruit Janice Lee is now a partner based in Hong Kong.
Po specialises in dispute resolution in the shipping, energy, and trade sectors. She is also experienced in non-contentious matters in these areas, as well as in arbitration in multiple jurisdictions.
Tang is focused on the shipping industry, particularly on shipbuilding, ship sale and purchase, ship finance, financial leasing, cross-border asset and project finance, foreign investment, and general corporate finance.
Lee is an experienced asset finance lawyer who advises numerous prominent Chinese clients on ship and aviation matters. She is an expert in structured financing, particularly in sale and leaseback transactions.
The other lawyers promoted by the firm are Will Blagbrough, Catherine Earnshaw, and Lee Sennett in London. The firm has also elevated Dimitris Giomelakis in Piraeus.
Blagbrough is an expert in complex shipping and trade contracts. He also specialises in both front- and back-end international trade matters.
A commercial dispute resolution lawyer, Earnshaw specialises in shipping litigation and general commercial disputes. She has extensive experience in commercial shipping litigation.
Sennet is focused on restructuring and non-contentious insolvency matters. He acts on restructuring, accelerated M&A, and formal corporate insolvency procedures.
Qualified in Greece, Giomelakis specialises in wet and dry shipping, and other commercial dispute resolution. He also advises on non-contentious issues.
The seven lawyers became Ince & Co partners on 1 May.
They add to the firm’s three newest partners, who commenced in their new role on 1 April. They are Goetz Rahne, Christian Reinert, and Julia Weichell, who are all based in Hamburg.
Rahne specialises in dry shipping and ship finance. Reinert is an expert in multi-jurisdictional restructuring and loan agreement enforcement. Weichell is focused on contentious and non-contentious matters in all aspects of shipping law.
Congratulating the new partners, Ince & Co senior partner Jan Huevels said that the group’s “experience and expertise builds on the excellent service that we are able to offer our clients in our chosen sectors of transport, trade, energy and infrastructure, and insurance. A number of our new partners are based outside of the UK, which is an illustration of the continued steps that we are taking to internationalise our business, which is in line with servicing the global needs of our clients.”
