‘Meaningful change begins at board-level’
‘Meaningful change begins at board-level’
14 June 2021 • By Lauren Croft Share
Flexible working and gender parity should be embraced by firms that want to keep quality employees, according to Lander & Rogers’ chief executive partner.
Genevieve Collins was previously the chair of the Lander & Rogers’ board before becoming chief executive partner in 2018 and has since established the firm’s wellness committee, as well as being a founding member of Lander & Rogers’ reconciliation action plan oversight committee.
Speaking to Lawyers Weekly, Ms Collins spoke about the firm’s gender equality and inclusivity initiatives and emphasised that flexible working is the way forward – and especially in a post-pandemic work, hybrid working is “here to stay”.
Lander & Rogers names 5 new partners in latest promo round
Lander & Rogers names 5 new partners in latest promo round Share
Australian law firm Lander & Rogers has promoted 31 staff, including five to the partnership.
On Friday, 4 June, Lander & Rogers confirmed 31 senior legal appointments had been made in the firm’s annual promotions, spanning across its workplace relations and safety, real estate and projects, and family and relationship law practice. Broken down the promotions see five new partners, 10 special counsel and 16 senior associates.
Taking on the partnership reins are Amie Frydenberg, Emma Purdue, Shannon Chapman, Timothy Gough and Lloyd Havlik.
Ms Frydenberg and Ms Purdue are both part of Lander & Rogers’ workplace relations and safety group and have leveraged the firm’s flexible working model by working three days per week since 2018.
Cross-border deals need broad skills in time of trade war and pandemic
For global commercial lawyers, advising on cross-border deals between local investors and foreign capital raisers is difficult at the best of times. But when the deal involves US and Chinese interests in the middle of a trade war, risk rises to a new level of complexity.
So, Ting Wang, of counsel at law firm Paul Hastings in Shanghai, had a challenge on his hands when his team tried to broker a strategic alliance between Chinese health group Fosun Pharma and Nasdaq-listed BioNTech to help develop and commercialise a Covid-19 vaccine.
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