South East: Pitmans expands corporate team

Regional law firm Pitmans LLP has appointed corporate director Oliver Pilkington in its corporate and commercial team.

In a career spanning 14 years, Pilkington has gained experience of a wide variety of corporate transactional work (both domestic and cross-border) and was previously a senior associate in the London corporate team of K&L Gates LLP.

At Pitmans he will be working with Roger Gregory, one of the firms’ corporate partners, and will be based in the firm’s London office. He will focus on equity capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions as well as providing general corporate and commercial legal advice.

Gregory commented: "We are extremely delighted to have Oliver join the team – his experience and capabilities will undoubtedly enhance our service offering in all areas of corporate work."