Hogan Lovells elects new board member for the Americas

Hogan Lovells has elected Celine Jimenez Crowson to the Americas seat on its board of directors, as part of the election or re-election of four new members to the board that comprises 12 members and supervises the affairs of the firm and its management on behalf of the partners.

Many partner-related matters, such as partner compensation, the opening of offices, appointment of new partners and a number of financial decisions require approval by the board. The board does not, however, have executive responsibility for strategy, management or operating decisions which are vested with the CEO and the IMC.

Membership of the board is designed to reflect the broad scope of the business, with members drawn from a variety of geographic and other backgrounds, the law firm said.

Celine Jimenez Crowson (pictured) is a first chair patent litigator and a founding member of the firm’s IPMT practice group, and who currently heads up the IPMT team in the Americas.

She has a technical background in electrical engineering and has worked with many of the firm’s major clients, including handling scores of patent litigations for major Auto OEMs, and working with the big four technology companies in multiple patent litigations in the mobile technology space, with a foremost maker of jet engines, and with a major chemical company in litigation regarding its packaging, auto and industrial coatings.

Washington, DC-based Celine is an active member of the firm’s automotive and mobility and diversified industrials industry sector groups and over the last two years has served on the firm’s US national diversity committee. 

The other appointments to the board announced this week are Joaquín Ruiz Echauri , who has been re-elected to the Continental Europe seat; Bruce D. Oakley, who has been elected to the US (except DC) seat, and Mahvesh Qureshi, who has been elected to the 45 and under seat.