Allen & Overy has appointed Tom Butcher as a partner to head up its Middle East TMT and Intellectual Property (IP) practice, with effect from 20 March 2016.
Allen & Overy has appointed Tom Butcher (pictured) as a partner to head up its Middle East TMT and Intellectual Property (IP) practice, with effect from 20 March 2016.
Butcher returns to the firm after two years at Simmons & Simmons where he led their TMT and IP practice in the Middle East and Anglophone Africa and co-chaired the Middle East Growth Market Group, Allen & Overy said in a statement.
“Tom’s appointment boosts our TMT practice and comes at a time of increased activity in the TMT and knowledge industries across the Middle East and Africa,” Simon Roderick, managing partner Middle East, said.
Butcher has over a decade of global and local TMT sector experience and more than seven in the region.