Deals lawyer Walied Soliman has been named global chair for 2024 at Norton Rose Fulbright, the firm announced.
Soliman, who is co-chair of Norton Rose’s special situations team, was first elected Canada chair in 2017 and served as the firm’s global chair in 2019. He succeeds a Sydney-based partner, Scott Atkins, who served as global chair in 2023 and will continue on as Australia chair. Soliman is based in Toronto.
The global chair position serves as an ambassador of the firm internally, and with clients. It rotates between regions every year.
Norton Rose shuffled its leadership after Gerry Pecht, its global chief executive officer retired from the firm in September with more than a year left in his leadership term. Jeff Cody, managing partner of Norton Rose’s U.S. operations and Peter Scott, head of the firm’s Europe, Middle East and Asia region jointly led the firm’s global executive committee on an interim basis following Pecht’s departure.
The firm has more than 3,000 lawyers distributed across 54 offices globally.
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