Refreshing the ranks: Magic Circle firms freshen up practice area leadership

Slaughter and May is changing heads in three practice areas: dispute resolution, outsourcing, technology, intellectual property (IP) and sport, and pensions and employment, as Linklaters has also promoted a new real estate leader.

Slaughters’ pensions practice, which recently announced the firm’s first lateral hire in London in Herbert Smith Freehills’ Dan Schaffer, will be now led by Charles Cameron. He takes over from Jonathan Fenn who led the practice through mandates such as advising Royal Dutch Shell on employment, pensions and share plan aspects of its £47bn combination with BG Group and ARM Holdings on its share plan aspects of its acquisition by Softbank.

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