Senior appointments: Linklaters picks successor to top finance job as Jim Rice prepares to step down Legal Business9 March 2015Law firm managementFinance Linklaters has appointed longstanding partner and global financial regulation group head Michael Kent as divisional practice head of finance & projects, where he will succeed heavyweight finance and securitisation partner Jim Rice.Your limit of 1 article in 30 days is up. Please login for full access or subscribe. Corporate users - click here for simple access (no password needed). For more information, please contact [email protected] Related ContentMore in this categoryThirty firms win roles in revamped £820m government legal panel – with three new appointments‘There’s definitely competition around rates’ – Clifford Chance and Linklaters match Cravath bonuses for US associatesRevolving Doors: Proskauer boosts London finance team as Paul Weiss picks up another Kirkland partner‘How hard are you prepared to work?’ – partners who’ve made it on how they built a book of business‘We don’t have a large ship to turn around’ – Eversheds Sutherland co-CEOs to canvas partners on strategy plansNRF to incentivise cross-border work with formalised global management committee‘A true win’ – Baker McKenzie on record Ecuador $1.6bn debt-for-nature swap and winning Finance Team of the YearFinancial Regulatory and Disputes Summit: Stranger than fictionGreenberg expands finance team in the City with Weil hire