Friederike Heine
Legal Week
October 14, 2010
Debevoise & Plimpton litigation partner Peter Rees is set to leave the firm to take up a new role as legal director at Shell.
Rees, who will join the oil and gas giant on Nov. 15, will take over as legal director at the beginning of next year when current incumbent Beat Hess retires.
Rees will take responsibility for Shell’s global legal function and will advise group management on all legal matters. The Shell legal function comprises 1,200 staff, of which around 720 are lawyers and 80 are intellectual property professionals.
Debevoise managing partner James Scoville said: “This is a great honor and a terrific opportunity for Peter, and we wish him every success. That said, he will certainly be missed, both personally and professionally, in London and throughout the firm.”
Rees had acted on many complex international disputes, and has represented clients including corporations, government departments, local governmental authorities and inter-governmental agencies.
Lord Goldsmith, Debevoise’s European chair of litigation, said: “Peter leaves the litigation department immeasurably stronger than when he joined. We will miss him but we will be continuing to build on the work he has so successfully done.”
Rees took silk at Debevoise in 2009 as one of just three solicitor advocates to make the grade that year.
Before joining Shell in 2003, Hess spent 26 years at energy company ABB, including 15 years as GC and company secretary.
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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