Frankfurt, 29 April 2016. CMS has added 31 partners across 22 offices globally, in addition to two director appointments in Scotland. Women represent over 39% of the firm’s promotions, spread across a number of practice areas and jurisdictions.

The Kyiv office of CMS Cameron McKenna congratulates Olga Belyakova with this well-deserved promotion.  Olga advises clients on corporate/commercial and competition matters with a special focus on the technology, media and communication sector (TMC). Olga has over fifteen years of experience in the TMC sector consulting local and international IT, telecommunication, and television companies of various size and caliber.

Olga’s general corporate and commercial experience combines broad expertise in competition law, mergers and acquisitions and in negotiating various types of commercial contracts, including sale and purchase agreements, procurement agreements, distribution agreements, and agreements relating to the advertisement of services. Olga is a recommended lawyer in the Chambers Europe 2012-2016 edition in the field of competition law in Ukraine, which describes her as “knowledgeable, service-minded and extremely impressive.”

Daniel Bilak, Managing Partner of the Ukraine office of CMS Cameron McKenna, commented that: “As TMC capabilities of the local market continue to expand, we are confident that Olga’s expert knowledge and wealth of experience in her new capacity will help us better service the needs of this rapidly growing sector”.

CMS Executive Chairman Cornelius Brandi adds, “Expanding and deepening our expertise so that we can deliver a first-class client service is key to CMS’s future success. With the naming of 31 new partners in 22 offices, we continue to ensure that our clients receive the support they need, both in their own jurisdictions and across borders.”

Partner promotions across CMS for 2016 include:

Banking & International Finance

Curra Munuera (Madrid, Spain)

Elitsa Ivanova (Sofia, Bulgaria)

Jenny Allan (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)

Corporate and Commercial

Alexandra Rohmert (Paris, France)

Darina Baltadjieva (Sofia, Bulgaria)

Jack Letson (Glasgow, United Kingdom)

Marija Tesic (Belgrade, Serbia)

Mirko Daidone (Tirana, Albania)

Nick Blair (London, United Kingdom)

Olga Belyakova (Kyiv, Ukraine)

Dr. Richard Mayer-Uellner (Cologne, Germany)

Tessa Penninks (Utrecht, Netherlands)

Competition & EU

Raško Radovanović (Belgrade, Serbia)

Dispute Resolution & Arbitration

Jean-Fabrice Brun (Paris, France)

Olivier Kuhn (Paris, France)

Employment and Pensions

Audrey Bertolotti (Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

Carsten Domke (Frankfurt, Germany)

Dr. Jens Winter (Vienna, Austria)

Energy, Environment, Projects and Construction

Graeme Clubley (Aberdeen, United Kingdom)

Jeremie Witt (Dubai, United Arab Emirates)

Piotr Ciolkowski (Warsaw, Poland)

Sarah King (London, United Kingdom)

Lifesciences

Dr. Roland Wiring (Hamburg, Germany)

Restructuring & Insolvency

Alexandre Bastos (Paris, France)

Daniel Kamke (Düsseldorf, Germany)

Real Estate

Caroline van Hulsteijn (Utrecht, Netherlands)

Tax

Anne-Sophie Rostaing (Paris, France)

Dr. Tobias Schneider (Stuttgart, Germany)

Technology, Media and Communications

Dr. Reemt Matthiesen (Munich, Germany)

Rogier de Vrey (Utrecht, Netherlands)

Tom De Cordier (Brussels, Belgium)

 

John Craske and Fiona Letham, who lead the Legal Services Unit (LSU) at CMS, have also been promoted to the role of ‘LSU Director’, with effect from 1 May. The LSU currently comprises 30 paralegals, located in Glasgow and Edinburgh, and in the three years since its launch has more than tripled in size. 

The LSU was set up in response to the needs of CMS clients who wanted innovative resourcing solutions and better value from their legal advisers, particularly around the resourcing of repeat, volume and process led legal work. The team provides legal support services to CMS lawyers and clients in the UK and internationally.

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For further information, please contact: Darina Gordienko, CMS Cameron McKenna, E: darina.gordienko@cms-cmck.com/+38044 3913377

 

NOTES TO EDITORS

CMS

Founded in 1999, CMS is a full-service top 10 international law firm, based on the number of lawyers (Am Law 2015 Global 100). With 60 offices in 34 countries across the world, employing over 3,000 lawyers, CMS has longstanding expertise both at advising in its local jurisdictions and across borders. CMS acts for a large number of Fortune 500 companies and the FT European 500 and for the majority of the DAX 30. Revenues totalled EUR 934m in 2014.

CMS provides a wide range of expertise across 19 expert practice and sector areas, including Corporate/M&A, Energy, Funds, Lifesciences, TMC, Tax, Banking and Finance, Commercial, Competition & EU, Dispute Resolution, Employment & Pensions, Intellectual Property and Real Estate & Construction.

For more information, please visit www.cmslegal.com.

CMS offices and associated offices: Aberdeen, Algiers, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Barcelona, Beijing, Belgrade, Berlin, Bratislava, Bristol, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Casablanca, Cologne, Dubai, Duesseldorf, Edinburgh, Frankfurt, Geneva, Glasgow, Hamburg, Istanbul, Kyiv, Leipzig, Lisbon, Ljubljana, London, Luxembourg, Lyon, Madrid, Mexico City, Milan, Montenegro, Moscow, Munich, Muscat, Paris, Podgorica, Prague, Rio de Janeiro, Rome, Sarajevo, Seville, Shanghai, Sofia, Strasbourg, Stuttgart, Tirana, Tehran, Utrecht, Vienna, Warsaw, Zagreb and Zurich.