Briefing for media

• Salans has announced that Dariusz Oleszczuk has been re-elected as Global Managing Partner for his third term.
• Dariusz is Polish and based in Salans’ Paris office. He is a qualified legal advisor and judge in Poland.
• He has been a partner at Salans since 1991.
• For the past six years Dariusz has been Salans’ Global Managing Partner, and today’s announcement confirms that he will remain in this post for at least a further three years
• Dariusz will continue to develop Salans as the leading European law firm with an emerging markets focus.
• He will continue to develop the business across its international network, with particular attention to Salans’ strengths in cross-border work and inter-office co-operation.
• Dariusz’s priorities going into 2011 will be focused on developing Salans’ relationships with its existing clients as well as increasing overall market share.
• Announcing Dariusz’s re-appointment as Global Managing Partner, Francois Chateau, the Chairman of the Board, commented: “Dariusz has been a partner of Salans for more than 20 years and fully represents what Salans is all about, a foreign national based in France with tremendous and highly successful multinational and multicultural experience. I am delighted that he will be continuing in this role for the coming years, and look forward to working with him on our busy agenda.”

About Salans:

• Salans is an international commercial law firm built on a pioneering spirit with over 700 fee earners globally operating from 22 offices.
• Salans LLP has offices, or is associated with Salans offices in: Almaty, Baku, Barcelona, Beijing, Berlin, Bratislava, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Kyiv, London, Madrid, Moscow, New York, Paris, Prague, Shanghai, St. Petersburg, Warsaw.
• Its combination of international capability and domestic expertise enables it to provide comprehensive services matching the needs of global and local clients alike.
• In 2010 Salans was awarded the European Law Firm of the Year award and Law Firm of the Year: France in The Lawyer magazine’s European Awards.
• See www.salans.com for further information.

Salans LLP is a Limited Liability Partnership registered in England and Wales with Registration Number OC 316822. Regulated by the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority of England and Wales. A list of the members of Salans LLP and of the non-members who are designated as partners of Salans LLP and/or its affiliated entities is available at its Registered Office: Millennium Bridge House, 2 Lambeth Hill, London EC4V 4AJ, United Kingdom.