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The newly formed DAC Beachcroft today announced two internal partner promotions and a lateral hire, bringing total partner numbers to 234.
The partner joining the firm is Michael Peeters, who will be heading up a northern technology law team to offer clients outsourcing, information technology and telecoms project support. Michael was previously Head of the Regional ICT Projects team at Pinsent Masons LLP in Leeds.
The partner promotions are Claire Reynolds in Employment and Pensions and Julitta Yates in Real Estate.
Simon Hodson, Senior Partner commented:
"Michael's appointment is key for a number of sectors within the firm including financial institutions, health and public sector and provides added weight and depth to our national technology skills offering. We now have one of the largest groups of technology lawyers in the UK with a growing brand to match that capability. Michael also has considerable international experience.
"Once again we have broken with tradition and made two partners up outside of the spring round in order to strengthen some key teams. With the merger we now have a leading London Real Estate practice and Julitta's promotion will boost our capabilities in the South West. Claire Reynolds, who is currently based in Leeds will be working across our northern offices, delivering employment services, primarily to our growing number of large health clients."
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About Michael Peeters
Michael trained with Clifford Chance and became a partner with what is now Pinsent Masons in 1995. He has over 20 years experience as an ICT (Information and Communications Technologies) lawyer – including considerable know-how in related areas such as software licensing, internet law and e-commerce. Michael has a proven track record of delivering large outsourcing (BPO and IT) and related ICT projects leading legal teams on a day to day basis and he has significant experience of international transactions (e.g. ICT Compliance projects.).
Michael has been involved in the International Technology Law Association (ITechLaw) for over 15 years and is a Board Member and Co-Chair of the Outsourcing Committee. He regularly speaks on aspects of ICT law at international conferences, for example at the Canadian IT Law Association.
About DAC Beachcroft
With over 2,000 people, DAC Beachcroft combines one of the most comprehensive UK legal networks with coverage across Europe, Latin America, North America and Asia-Pacific.
We provide a full service claims, transactional, commercial, risk and advisory capability. We work with clients in a select range of industry sectors and are market leaders in health, insurance and real estate.
We are agile, progressive and easy to engage with. Our flexible approach to resourcing enables us to apply the right mix of legal, commercial and process skills to deliver the right outcome at the right price, depending on our clients’ individual needs.
We are committed to supporting the communities where we operate through charitable giving, pro bono work and programmes such as those operated by Business in the Community and The Prince's Trust.
Chambers UK, A Client's Guide to the Legal Profession 2012, recognised 121 of our partners and professionals as leading lawyers and we hold with 84 rankings in 34 separate practice areas, 20 of which are number one rankings.
DAC Beachcroft holds certification under ISO9001, the quality assurance standard and ISO27001, the information security standard and we are the largest law firm in the country to hold a silver Investors in People award. For more information, please visit www.dacbeachcroft.com.