Hogan Lovells makes changes to office and practice area leadership roles

Commenting on the changes, global CEO of Hogan Lovells Steve Immelt said:

"We regularly rotate our management and leadership responsibilities. It enables us to recognize and grow our talent and reflects the quality, breadth, and depth of our partners around the world."

"I would like to take this opportunity to thank all those that have served as our outgoing Office Managing Partners and Practice Area Leaders. All have contributed greatly to our success during their tenures, and we would like to offer our sincere thanks and appreciation to each of them. I have the greatest confidence in these new members of our global leadership team."

All the changes are effective from 1 January 2020.

Office Managing Partner changes:

• Alicante - Imogen Fowler will be the new Office Managing Partner for our Alicante office, taking over from Andreas Renck.
• Birmingham - Gill McGreevy will be taking over from Michael Gallimore as Head of our Birmingham office.
• Boston - Maria Durant will be the new Office Managing Partner for our Boston office, taking over for Bill Lovett. Greg Noonan will take on the new role of Office Administrative Partner.
• Dusseldorf - Heiko Gemmel will be the new Office Managing Partner for our office in Dusseldorf, succeeding Thomas Duenchheim. Thomas will continue his leadership responsibilities for Global Regulatory in Continental Europe.
• Miami - Jorge Diaz-Silveira will succeed Richard Lorenzo as Miami's new Office Managing Partner.
• Moscow - Natalia Gulyaeva will be the new Office Managing Partner of our Moscow office, succeeding Oxana Balayan.
• New York - Michael DeLarco will be the new Office Managing Partner and Lisa Fried will be the Office Administrative Partner for our New York office. They will be taking over from Ollie Armas and Chris Donoho respectively.

Practice Area Leader changes:

• Dan Norris will take over from Jackie Newstead as Head of Real Estate. Jackie will continue to lead the Real Estate industry sector group, the firm's fourth biggest sector by billing.
• Ivan Zapien will be the new Practice Area Leader of Government Relations and Public Affairs. He succeeds Norm Coleman as Practice Area Leader and Robert Kyle as Administrative Partner.
• Miriam Gundt will be taking over from Morten Petersenn as head of IPMT Europe.