Mourant continues 60th anniversary celebrations with key appointments
In this, Mourant’s 60th anniversary year, employees at the law firm have extra reason to celebrate, following four promotions.
The law firm’s continuing expansion sees John Rainer and Simon Felton become partners and shareholders, as well as Martin Eccles and Bruce Lincoln promoted to senior associates.
John qualified as an English solicitor with Gouldens in London in 2000. He joined Mourant du Feu & Jeune, qualifying as a Jersey solicitor in 2003. He undertakes a broad spread of banking, corporate and commercial and collective investment fund work. John’s recent work has included the listing of WNS (Holdings) Limited, an Indian business process outsourcing business, on the New York Stock Exchange.
Simon joined Mourant du Feu & Jeune in 1997, working his way through the firm’s extensive training programme and developing expertise in a range of capital markets, structured finance and investment funds work. He was admitted as a Jersey solicitor in 2001 before moving to Mourant du Feu & Jeune’s London office in 2003. Simon advises leading financial institutions, corporates and intermediaries on a wide range of capital markets, structured finance and investment fund transactions. He was described in the 2005 UK edition of Legal 500 as "highly skilled" in the structured finance and securitisation area.
Continuing the firm’s progress and development of its staff, Martin Eccles, who works principally in the Finance practice area, and Bruce Lincoln, a member of the Disputes team since 2004, have both been made senior associates.
Martin joined Mourant du Feu & Jeune in October 2004 and previously worked with leading law firms in London, New York, Hong Kong, Sydney and Edinburgh. Martin also has in-house experience as head of legal and prudential for the Asset and Infrastructure Group at Macquarie Bank. Martin is admitted as a solicitor in New South Wales, England and Wales and Hong Kong, and as an attorney and counsellor-at-law in New York. Martin has extensive experience in structured finance, capital markets and derivatives, project finance, leveraged buy-outs, asset finance and film finance.
After studying law at OxfordUniversity, Bruce qualified as a solicitor of England & Wales in March 1999 at Gouldens and practised as a member of their litigation department (and following its merger, as a litigator in Jones Day’s Finance Group) until July 2004. Following a period with Maples and Calder, where he was admitted as a Cayman Islands attorney-at-law, Bruce joined Mourant du Feu & Jeune’s Disputes team in December 2004 and qualified as a Jersey advocate in August 2007. Bruce has experience of a wide range of contentious areas, including trusts, insolvency, banking and professional negligence. Earlier this year, Bruce was sworn in as a Jersey advocate.
Stephen Ball, CEO of Mourant du Feu & Jeune, commented: "The success of Mourant is down to its people and we have a great team of people here.John, Simon, Bruce and Martin all bring individual qualities that make us commercially agile and leaders in our diverse markets, while continually striving for the highest standards in everything we do."
Mourant’s 60th anniversary year has seen the firm continue its strong growth by completing its merger with Cayman firm Quin & Hampson and launching its fund administration services in San Francisco, Singapore and Hong Kong.