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近日，全球最大的全球性律师事务所Dentons宣布任命Kate Barton为新任全球首席执行官，接替自2013年成立以来一直担任该职位的Elliott Portnoy。
Kate Barton
Barton从安永离职加入Dentons，她在安永拥有35年的杰出职业生涯，担任过各种行政领导职务，最新的职位为全球副主席。
Barton将接替Elliott Portnoy。自2013年公司成立以来，Elliott一直担任公司的全球首席执行官。
在安永35年的任期内，Barton自1985年开始实习以来，曾担任过许多职位。新英格兰税务管理合伙人、东北分区税务管理合伙人，纽约办事处管理合伙人，美国税务、法律和人事咨询服务副主席，全球税务、法律及人事咨询服务部副主席，以及她最新全球副主席头衔。
Dentons全球首席执行官Elliott
Portnoy表示：“Kate在领导复杂的全球专业服务公司方面拥有丰富的经验，在管理人员、流程和系统方面拥有出色的技能。她成功的客户服务经验，加上她周到的整合方法，使她成为领导我们公司的理想人选。”。“她得到了我的全力支持，我相信她将带领Dentons不断壮大，取得更大的成功。”
Kate在回顾她的任命时说：“我看到Dentons凭借其开创性的商业战略和客户服务重新定义了法律服务格局。在Elliott的领导下，这家律师事务所以其多中心的方法和整合的跨境和多学科客户参与实现了差异化，证明了团结和作为一家律师事务所运营更具影响力。我期待着与Elliotty一起进行过渡，并与Dentons就卓著的区域领导层合作，继续挑战行业规范，适应世界各地律师事务所和专业服务公司面临的不断变化的技术和创新世界，为我们的员工和客户带来卓越的利益。”
交接期从9月开始，她的上任就职日是11月10日。
Dentons新闻稿如下：
July 24, 2024
Dentons, the world’s largest global law
firm, today announced that its Global Board of Directors and Global Advisory
Committee have elected Kate Barton as the Firm’s next Global CEO.
Barton will join Dentons from EY, where she has had a highly distinguished
35-year career in a variety of executive leadership roles, most recently as
Global Vice Chair. She will succeed Elliott Portnoy, the founding Global CEO,
who has served since the Firm’s launch in 2013.
Barton led multiple business units at EY, a $50
billion organization operating in 150 countries around the world. In addition
to serving as Global Vice Chair, she was CEO of Tax, Law, and People Advisory
Services, which had a global workforce of 70,000 professionals and – under her
leadership – generated revenues in excess of $11 billion. Among other achievements, she
helped to transform EY’s global tax practice through strategic investments
in people, technology, global shared service centers, world-class methods and
processes, and M&A activity.
Barton will join Dentons in early September to
begin a meaningful handover period with Portnoy, whose term ends on November 9,
2024. Barton will start her term as Global CEO on November 10, 2024.
“Kate has extensive experience in leading a complex and global professional
service organization and has an outstanding skillset in managing people,
processes and systems. Her successful client service experience, coupled with
her thoughtful approach to integration, make her the ideal individual to lead
our Firm,” said Elliott Portnoy, Global CEO. “She has my
unqualified support, and I am confident she will lead Dentons from strength to
even greater strength and success.”
Reflecting on her appointment, Kate said, “I have
watched Dentons redefine the legal services landscape with its pioneering
business strategy and client offerings. Under Elliott’s leadership,
this Firm has differentiated itself with its polycentric approach and
integrated cross-border and multidisciplinary client engagements, proving that
uniting and operating as one firm is far more impactful. I am looking forward
to working with Elliott on a transition and to collaborating with Dentons’ accomplished
regional leadership to continue challenging industry norms and adapting to the
ever-changing world of technology and innovation faced by law firms and
professional service firms around the world in order to deliver excellence for
the benefit of our people and our clients.”
As founding Global CEO, Portnoy has overseen
significant growth – Dentons serves clients in 167 locations in 82
countries – while advancing the Firm’s distinctive “uniquely global,
deeply local” approach to professional services. Under his leadership, Dentons has
become one of the best known and most favorably regarded law firms in surveys
of the world’s most important purchasers of legal and business solutions services.
“Both Dentons and the broader legal profession have benefited enormously
from Elliott’s visionary leadership and accomplishments. We thank him for his service
and for positioning Dentons to continue thriving in today’s dynamic
environment,” said Nicholas Howon Park, Non-Executive Chair of the Global Board – Dentons. “Kate has
shown the highest commitment to our purpose – redefining what is
possible and shaping the future – and I speak on
behalf of our leadership in welcoming her into our organization.”
The process to appoint the Global CEO was led by
Dentons’ Global Board Talent & Governance Committee Chair, Gerald Singham, with
the support of the Firm’s Global Board and Global Advisory Committee (which
is composed of the Firm’s regional and local boards). The process explored
both internal and external candidates across all geographies.
Barton has received numerous honors and awards over
the course of her career, including “Female Executive of
the Year” by Women World Awards for her technology innovation in tax, “Woman of the
Year – Business Services” by the Stevie Awards, and “Women of
Influence” by the New York Business Journal. She serves on the Boards of All Stars
National, Shanti Bhavan, The Ireland Funds Dinner Committee, Boston College Law
Deans Advisory Council and Boston University School of Management Advisory
Council. She is a licensed CPA in New York and Massachusetts, a member of the
Massachusetts and Boston Bar Associations, and is NACD Director Certified.
Barton earned her LLM in Taxation from Boston University School of Law, her JD
in Law, Order of the Coif, from Boston College Law School where she was Magna
Cum Laude, and her BS in Business Administration from Boston University.