Gadens Lawyers has appointed Catherine Oates Smith as its new business development manager. Formerly an advisor to Divonne Holmes a Court’s Smart Population Foundation, Oates Smith will be responsible for providing drive and structure to the marketing strategy of the firm. Prior to her current appointment, she worked as a solicitor in Sydney and London, specialising in corporate finance and insolvency.

Nick Diacos has joined Middletons Lawyers’ Sydney office as a partner in the firm’s banking & finance group. He has more than 18 years experience in the banking and finance sector with a particular emphasis on transactional matters involving securitisation, project infrastructure and acquisition finance.

RAJ Lawyers has appointed Maria Yun as a solicitor in its property litigation division based in the firm’s Sydney office. She has worked in private practice, government and in-house. Yun recently came from Gillis Delaney Brown where she practised in the areas of commercial transactions and commercial litigation, specialising in contractual disputes, trade practices, debt recovery and insolvency.

Sceales & Company have appointed Bill Manning, formerly of Allens Arthur Robinson, as a consultant specialising in the area of resources law.

Chris Bromhead has joined ING Australia Limited as corporate counsel.