King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) has appointed Australia chief executive partner Sue Kench as its new global managing partner, after former postholder Stuart Fuller relinquished the role at the height of problems with the firm’s embattled European arm late last year.
Fuller had held the global managing partner role since the 2012 merger of China’s King & Wood and Australia’s Mallesons Stephen Jaques, and played a key role in the ill-fated tie-up with SJ Berwin in 2013. He has since returned to full-time practice in the firm’s banking and finance team in Sydney.
