Legal Week, The Lawyer, Daily Report, City A.M., The Global Legal Post, The Law Society Gazette | Alston Launches London Office, Boosting Payments, Finance Practices

In a strategic decision to expand its European practice, Alston & Bird has opened a London office on the strength of its growing finance and payments practices. The office supports the firm’s finance and payments industry clients doing business in the U.K. and across Europe, as well as local investors and clients transacting business in the United States.

Alston & Bird is featured for its new London office and the additions of finance partners Andrew Petersen and James Spencer and payments partners James Ashe-Taylor and Rich Willis, who is quoted.

Paul Simcock is noted for joining the firm as a finance partner in the London office, and Tamer Bahgat, Andrew Petersen, James Spencer, James Ashe-Taylor, Phil Taylor, Saloni Joshi, James Fisher, and Paul Morris are mentioned.

Tamer Bahgat is noted for joining the firm as a finance partner in the London office, and Andrew Petersen, James Spencer, James Ashe-Taylor, Phil Taylor, and Saloni Joshi are mentioned.

Shanell Cramer, partner and co-chair of Alston & Bird’s Finance Group, has been recognized as a "Distinguished Leader” by the New York Law Journal in its 2020 awards honoring attorneys in leadership roles who have achieved impressive results and demonstrated clear leadership skills in the past year.