Ashurst CEO reappointed

Global law firm Ashurst has confirmed the firm’s global CEO, Paul Jenkins, has been reappointed for a third four-year term, to commence on 1 November 2022. Chair, Karen Davies, said Jenkins had done “an excellent job” of leading Ashurst “particularly over the past two years through the pandemic and against a backdrop of growing challenges for our clients and disruption within the legal industry itself”. She added: “I am confident that he will continue to steer the business from strength to strength, as we head into the next phase of our growth”.