Shell has overhauled its UK legal team, appointing Sarah Morton as its new UK head of legal, replacing Michael Coates in the role.
Morton, who is also now associate GC for Shell’s downstream northwest Europe business, takes up her new role after nearly six years as Shell’s managing counsel for global litigation for Europe, Middle East & North Africa. In this role she built and managed a team of lawyers, recruiting from both inside and outside of Shell.
Coates has taken up a new position as associate general counsel for Shell’s global upstream business after four years as UK head of legal.
He joined the oil major in 2004 as senior legal counsel for gas and power, after moving in-house from Slaughter and May.
Prior to joining Shell in 2011, Morton, who is also now a director of Shell UK limited, was an associate at US firm Debevoise & Plimpton, where she specialised in international commercial litigation and arbitration. She initially trained and spent four years as an associate at legacy Norton Rose.
In January this year, Clifford Chance (CC) and Dechert won leading roles on Shell’s £3bn ($3.8bn) disposal of North Sea assets to Chrysaor Holdings.
While CC advised Shell, much of the work was carried out in-house by Shell’s 650 legal team, which is headed by group general counsel Donny Ching.
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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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