Law firms Senior appointments: Linklaters picks successor to top finance job as Jim Rice prepares to step down Legal Business · 9 March 2015 · 2 min read Law firm management Finance Linklaters 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 categoryThe art of the buyout: how clients rank London’s top private equity teamsLaw firmsWill Lewallen24 Apr 2026Linklaters closes Hamburg office amid plans to refocus German operationsLaw firmsKate Peacock16 Apr 2026Five law firms win appointments on FCA’s ‘skilled person’ investigations panelLaw firmsTheresa Hargreaves13 Apr 2026‘How hard are you prepared to work?’ – partners who’ve made it on how they built a book of businessLaw firmsElisha Juttla9 Dec 2024‘We don’t have a large ship to turn around’ – Eversheds Sutherland co-CEOs to canvas partners on strategy plansLaw firmsAnna Huntley18 Nov 2024NRF to incentivise cross-border work with formalised global management committeeLaw firmsAnna Huntley24 Sep 2024‘A true win’ – Baker McKenzie on record Ecuador $1.6bn debt-for-nature swap and winning Finance Team of the YearLaw firmsElisha Juttla28 Oct 2024Financial Regulatory and Disputes Summit: Stranger than fictionLaw firmsHolly McKechnie20 Feb 2024Greenberg expands finance team in the City with Weil hireLaw firmsElisha Juttla27 Nov 2023