Denmark

IP lawyer Thorbjørn Swanstrøm has joined aera as a partner. Swanstrøm was previously the head of legal and trade marks at Chas Hude.

Life sciences IP lawyer Jacob Ørndrup has joined Loeven Law as a partner. He was previously with Gorrissen Federspiel.

 

Germany

Peters Schönberger & Partner hired life sciences IP lawyer Constanze Ulmer-Eilfort as a partner in its IP department. Ulmer-Eilfort joined from Baker McKenzie, where she was a partner and an executive committee member.

 

Ireland

IP Star Peter Bolger has left LK Shields. He was the firm's head of IP.

 

Sweden

IP litigator Mattias Malmstedt has left Gulliksson to run his own law firm.

 

Switzerland

Troller Hitz Troller hired soft IP lawyer Bernard Volken and his team, including three lawyers, from FMP Fuhrer Marbach & Partner.

 

Ukraine

Anton Polikarpov has established his own law firm, Polikarpov Law Firm. He was previously the head of IP/TMT practice at AVELLUM.

 

United Kingdom

EIP hired commercial IP lawyer Mark Lubbock from Brown Rudnick as a partner in its London office.

IP law firm Innovate Legal has shut down following the departure of patent litigator Duncan Curley and his team to Penningtons Manches Cooper. 

 

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