International law firm RPC has hired Reshma Raja as the firm’s first General Counsel. She will start at RPC at the beginning of July.
Reshma joins RPC from Dentons, where she most recently held the position of Deputy General Counsel at Dentons UK and Middle East for the last four years. In that role, Reshma led on a broad range of risk and compliance issues across the business as well as sat on the firm’s Global Risk Management Committee.
Previously, Reshma spent 14 years at Matthew Arnold & Baldwin (MAB). At MAB, she practised as a senior banking litigator, switching roles to become Head of Professional Standards and COLP as a Partner in 2008.
As General Counsel, Reshma will be part of the firm’s Partnership, and have accountability for and oversight of risk and compliance across the firm. Within her role she will advise the Managing Partner and Partnership Executive team about the legal and regulatory implications of the firm’s major decisions, strategies and transactions. She will sit on the Partnership Executive Committee and act as a key adviser on issues of firm governance, growth, special projects and practice management.
The hire comes shortly after the firm hired five new Partners (Shai Wade, Tania Williams, Mike Newham, Rathi Thiagamoorthy and Peter Kwon) across its Commercial and Insurance Group, as well as promoting ten new Partners to the Partnership in May. RPC now has 125 Partners across the firm.
