Ashurst global PE co-head exits to O’Melveny; Hogan Lovells hires from K&L Gates and Weil and Kirkland picks up a CC tech partner

O’Melveny & Myers has expanded its London office with the hires of Ashurst private equity partners David Carter and Braeden Donnelly, bringing O’Melveny’s London partner headcount to seven.

Carter,  a Legal 500 Hall of Famer for mid-market private equity transactions, was global co-head of Ashurst’s PE practice, and brings over 20 years of experience in leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate reconstructions. Donnelly, a partner at Ashurst for five years, has experience advising on UK and multijurisdictional PE transactions for clients including Agilitas, CapVest, and Liberty Hall Capital Partners.

Commenting on their departures, Ashurst’s global CEO Paul Jenkins told Legal Business: ‘We wish David and Braeden the very best. We also made some significant hires and internal promotions, so for us it’s a matter of continuing to invest and look for opportunities to continue to grow that team.’

Also active in PE was Hogan Lovells, which has hired K&L Gates partner James Cross and Weil acquisition finance counsel Nick Cusack as a partner. This follows last month’s hire of special situations partner Sam Norris from Ropes & Gray, signaling continued growth in the firm’s largest office.

Cross’s expertise includes advising investors and management on buyouts, restructurings, and bolt-on acquisitions, with notable experience in complex cross-border transactions for Chinese and US investors.

Cusack, a specialist in leveraged finance transactions, has a focus on private credit.

Global corporate & finance practice group head James Doyle emphasised the strategic importance of the hires, stating: ‘Their arrival helps us to continue to service the increasingly important and sophisticated global private capital market across the full investment life cycle.’

Elsewhere, André Duminy has joined Kirkland & Ellis as a partner in the firm’s technology and IP transactions practice, concluding a nearly 25-year tenure at Clifford Chance.

Specialising in technology and business separation issues, as well as multi-vendor and multijurisdictional carveout transactions, Duminy is set to enhance the firm’s tech and IP transactions offering, alongside its broader M&A practice in Europe.

‘André’s skillset strongly supports out private equity and financial sponsor clients’ investments across relevant asset classes,’ said Kirkland corporate partner and executive committee member Matthew Elliott in a statement. ‘His hire will help spearhead the development of the London Technology & IP Transactions practice as our transactional offering continues to evolve and drive growth opportunities,’ he continued.

Simmons & Simmons has also strengthened its London PE offering with its hire of Richard Kyle, who joins from Eversheds after over two decades.

‘It’s an excellent time to join, with the firm prioritising the expansion of its mid-market private equity offering. With strong EU transactional and financing capabilities, a wide international network, and a sector focus aligned with that of my clients, Simmons is a fantastic fit for my practice,’ Kyle said in a statement.

Covington & Burling has enhanced its EMEA PE practice with the addition of partners Lyndsey Laverack and Jade Williams-Adedeji in London, complementing the February hire of Paul Hastings’ Adrian Chiodo as European leveraged finance practice head.

Laverack, previously at Sidley Austin, focuses on PE and cross-border M&A, particularly in equity investments in real estate and social infrastructure assets. Williams-Adedeji, also joining from Sidley after over almost two decades, advises clients on the real estate investment cycle, including debt and equity investments, as well as direct asset acquisitions and disposals.

Meanwhile, White & Case has expanded its investment funds practice and global private equity industry group with its hire of Alexandra Chauvin as a secondaries partner in London.

Chauvin, who joins from Ropes & Gray where she led the European secondaries team, brings extensive experience in US and European secondaries transactions.

Chauvin marks the firm’s third recent hire from Ropes: Emily Brown joined as investment funds practice head last November after making partner at Ropes in April 2021, followed by Lavanya Raghavan, who was a counsel at Ropes and joined W&C as a partner in March.

‘With deep experience in the US and Europe, Alexandra will strengthen our funds and secondaries capabilities globally and be well-placed to capitalize on a market that is growing at speed’, said Brown in a statement.

Elsewhere, Jenner & Block expanded its litigation team with its hire of Legal 500 banking litigation leading individual Edward Davis. Davis joins from Stephenson Harwood, where he co-headed the London litigation practice for 25 years, handling complex banking and fund-related matters, fraud cases, and corporate disputes.

Also active in disputes was Fladgate, which hired Ashurst counsel Thomas Karalis into its dispute resolution group as a partner. A Legal 500 international arbitration rising star, Karalis joins with over 15 years’ experience, and brings the firm’s London partner headcount to just shy of 100.

Shoosmiths has grown its London employment practice with the addition of Adam Lambert, who joins from BCLP, where he led the UK employment and labour group. Lambert brings nearly 30 years of experience to complement Shoosmiths’ 50-strong national employment team.

Additionally, Rachel Orton has joined Clyde & Co as a partner in the firm’s real estate team. Formerly partner and head of senior living at Addleshaw Goddard, Orton brings experience in advising on healthcare and living sector developments, including hospitals, supported living, dementia care assets, and infrastructure transactions.

Finally, looking overseas, Freshfields continued its run of aggressive US expansion with its hire of Skadden tax head Steven Matays into its New York tax practice.

Matays brings over 20 years of experience in handling complex U.S. and international tax matters, focusing on M&A, spinoffs, debt and equity offerings, corporate restructurings, and joint ventures.

Matays said in a statement: ‘Freshfields is the firm to watch in the US. I’ve been impressed by how the firm has become a go-to outside counsel for the most important assignments of high-profile clients especially in M&A over the last few years. I’m excited to be a part of this vibrant team and I look forward to contributing to the next phase of growth.’

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Leading the high-profile moves this week, Rebecca Perlman has joined Kirkland & Ellis’ ESG and impact practice group in London as a partner. Perlman leaves behind a 12-year tenure at Herbert Smith Freehills, where she was head of the firm’s UK, US, and EMEA operations and global head of sustainable and impact investment.

Perlman brings with her more than a decade of expertise in advising clients on a range of ESG-related matters, including regulatory compliance, soft law standards, voluntary frameworks, ESG market disclosure, reporting, and issues concerning accredited organisations.

Elsewhere in the City, Ashurst has bolstered its disputes and investigations offering with the hire of white-collar partner Judith Seddon from Dechert. Recognised as a Legal 500 Hall of Famer, Seddon advises corporate clients, including senior executives and leading financial institutions, in some of the most significant and complex investigations mounted by the SFO and FCA in the UK and by prosecuting authorities across the globe. She has previously served as a partner at Ropes & Gray and Clifford Chance.

Taylor Wessing has added investment funds partner Shervin Shameli to its London private equity and fund formation team. Shameli arrives from Reed Smith, where he served for three and a half years, notably co-heading the firm’s London private funds formation group. With close to two decades of experience, Shameli has experience in the management of investment funds and his expertise spans from advising first-time funds to second/third vintage funds, co-investments, spinouts, and joint ventures.

Commenting on his move, he said: ‘It’s really just the scope of opportunity here. My client base on the formation side has a bigger tilt to European managers and Taylor Wessing has an incredibly strong mid-market private equity practice and an exceptionally strong venture practice as well. I have my own clients within those spaces, and it had a much clearer vision for me in terms of working with those teams to grow those opportunities. It’s both about my existing clients and looking to introduce and connect those clients on the funds formation side, and vice versa, exploring opportunities and contacts the other way around.’

Also in London, Mayer Brown has strengthened its global energy group with the hire of energy and infrastructure partner Massimo Amoruso from Clifford Chance, marking yet another exit from the magic circle to a major US player. His expertise includes advising on complex project development and financing to a wide range of clients globally, including major corporates, financial sponsors, and institutions across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

On his decision to join, he explained: ‘There were three reasons. Firstly, there is a complete alignment with the vision of what a law firm should be – providing excellent client service with collaboration internally. It’s a key tenet to the firm’s strategy and it’s what I would say if you asked me in a vacuum. Secondly, the existing strengths that are adjacent/complimentary to my practice. Lastly, there is a commitment to continue investing in the energy practice which is a very good thing for me.’

Freshfields has strengthened its US strategy by hiring private equity M&A partners Neal Reenan and Ian Bushner in New York from Latham & Watkins. Reenan, with over 17 years at Kirkland & Ellis before joining Latham’s Chicago office in March 2020, will serve as global co-head of private capital. Bushner, a former Kirkland partner for six years, also joined Latham in March 2020 and will lead US private capital at his new firm.

While finalising its merger with Shearman & Sterling, A&O has lost a team of six intellectual property litigators to Paul Hastings in the US. Shamita Etienne-Cummings, Lisa Nguyen, Eric Lancaster, James Gagen, and Grace Wang have joined Paul Hastings as partners, with the sixth partner yet to be named, spanning across Palo Alto, New York, and Washington offices.

K&L Gates has also strengthened its IP practice in Charlotte with the hire of long-time Crowell & Moring partner Vincent Galluzzo where he served as co-chair of the firm’s trade secrets working group. He focuses his practice on high-tech patent and trade secret litigation, appeals, and software licensing disputes.

Over in Frankfurt, McDermott has welcomed two Ashurst partners Maximilian Uibeleisen and Benedikt von Schorlemer to its transaction practice group in Frankfurt. The duo brings with them a strong background in advising on project development and finance, M&A, and corporate reorganisation for both strategics and private equity funds, along with their portfolio companies across the energy and infrastructure space.

In Edinburgh, Shepherd and Wedderburn has bolstered its employment practice with the hire of partner Morag Hutchison from BurnessPaull. She brings with her experience advising clients across energy, house building, financial services and hospitality.

Hutchinson commented: ‘I did my training contract here 20 years ago. My key reason for joining was because the firm is strengthening and growing its employment team, and it’s a great opportunity to be back at the firm and be a part of that growth.’

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DLA Piper leads this week’s round of strategic hires with a quartet of notable additions to its London office. Steven Bryan, who left Paul Hastings in October, has joined the London corporate practice, bringing expertise in energy and infrastructure M&A along with Paul Doris from Brown Rudnick. Accompanying them, Derwin Jenkinson, who also departed Paul Hastings last year, enhances DLA’s finance projects and restructuring group.

DLA Piper also welcomed Andrew Sackney to its corporate crime and investigations team in London. Coming from Pinsent Masons, where he led the global investigations practice, Sackney brings expertise in tackling large-scale, domestic, and international investigations.

Allen & Overy has boosted its global IP practice with the addition of Gemma Barret, a  life sciences specialist from Bristows.  ‘A&O has an international outlook, its IP network across Europe and the US provides exciting opportunities for my practice and me generally,’ Barret remarked about her move. Her appointment marks a milestone for the firm, signaling a commitment to diversity and inclusion by achieving a 50% female partnership in its global life sciences patent litigation team. ‘A&O has a lot of initiatives to support gender diversity, and I’m keen to get involved in those,’ Barret added.

Elsewhere in the City, David Irvine, Linklaters’ co-head of leverage finance, has joined Gibson Dunn, marking yet another exit from the magic circle firm to a major US player. His expertise in private equity and cross-border financing is expected to strengthen Gibson Dunn’s finance practice.

Meanwhile, TLT has bolstered its tech, IP, and data capabilities with the addition of Michelle Sally as partner. Previously at Ashurst, where she was a senior associate, Sally’s experience in digital economy regulation—spanning AI, ad tech, NFTs, and Web3—complements TLT’s expanding presence in technology outsourcing and transactions.

Paul Weiss has announced Gareth Hughes as its new chief of European operations. Joining from Reed Smith Hughes has a decade of experience in legal business and operations management, and the firm intends to leverage his expertise in strategic planning and service enhancement to drive the firm’s growth and expansion in Europe.

King & Spalding has hired senior capital markets partner Peter Schwartz from Paul Hastings. Schwartz, who has nearly a decade of experience at Paul Hastings, joins King & Spalding’s London office. This reunites him with former colleagues Richard Kitchen, Amin Doulai, and Alon Blitz, who moved to King & Spalding in 2022.

Across the pond, the firm has made a strategic capture, bringing on board trial partner Veronica Moyé to its litigation practice from Gibson Dunn. The firm said that her expertise in antitrust and IP aligns with the firm’s expansion in Dallas, broadening its reach in Texas.

Also in the US, Blank Rome has strengthened its white-collar defence and investigations group with four new attorneys from Akerman. Bradley Henry, a partner in New York, takes the helm as vice-chair. In Washington DC, partners Kathleen Shannon, Jason Emert, and foreign associate Ekinsu Çebi Elkei join the ranks. These additions build on Blank Rome’s strategic expansion efforts, following last month’s recruitment of five white-collar attorneys.

Speaking with Legal Business, Shannon said: ‘We have known Blank Rome and its lawyers for a long time. Blank Rome has a strong reputation in the white-collar space for its deep bench and client service excellence, and has complementary maritime, international trade, and government contracts practices that will enhance the services we are able to offer clients.’

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Leading this week’s high-profile moves, Allen & Overy has appointed John Goldfinch as a partner in its global structured finance practice in advance of its planned merger with Shearman & Sterling. Previously at Milbank, Goldfinch has experience dealing with derivative products and securitisation asset classes including CLOs and CDOs (cash and synthetic), lease receivables, trade receivables, equity, credit rates, NPLs, covered bond transactions and secured structured lending.

Goldfinch brings with him a team of four senior associates from Milbank: Adrian Kwok, Peter West, Eleanor Cripps and Alexandra Wells. A&O has highlighted private capital as a key strategic focus for the firm, with its private capital revenue growing by over 60% over the past two years.

Elsewhere in London, Taylor Wessing has strengthened its financial services regulatory offering with the hire of Charlotte Witherington. Witherington, who moves from Freshfields, where she was a senior associate, is the firm’s third partner hire of 2024, following the appointment of disputes specialist Ryan Ferry to the firm’s Dublin office and IP specialist  Giles Crown in  London.

Speaking to Legal Business about the move, Witherington said: ‘There has never been a better time to be a financial services regulatory lawyer (obviously no bias there!). We are living through a busy and varied regulatory environment in the UK and beyond, and the most exciting growth opportunity lies at the intersection of technology and traditional financial services – within fintech, digital currencies and artificial intelligence.’

Meanwhile, Reed Smith has bolstered its private equity and corporate transactions group in London with the addition of Tom Whelan from McDermott, where he was head of its private equity and corporate transactions group..

Pinsent Masons has appointed pensions litigation partner Charlotte Scholes to its London office. She acts for trustees, representative beneficiaries, and employers in rectification and construction proceedings. She also has experience advising on professional negligence claims. Scholes is returning to Pinsent Masons after spending four years at Gowling WLG.

Scholes told Legal Business ‘I’m proud to come back to Pinsent Masons. It is a time of rapid change in the pensions litigation world, with de-risking transactions revealing problems that have previously gone unnoticed. I’m looking forward to working with my colleagues to help clients respond to the challenges that these present.’

Elsewhere, Osborne Clarke has welcomed partner Jack Prytherch to its tax disputes team. Prytherch joins from CMS, where he helped to build its UK tax disputes practice and brings with him extensive experience in all forms of both direct and indirect contentious tax matters, including HMRC enquiries and compliance checks, HMRC civil information powers, tax offences and serious investigations, voluntary disclosures and penalty mitigation, and commercial tax disputes.

In the US, Boies Schiller Flexner has bolstered its international arbitration practice with the appointment of Kristen Young. Young, whose corporate clients include TECO Energy, Israel Chemicals, Webuild and Orascom TMT Investments, specialises in international investment and commercial arbitration matters, such as annulment and international enforcement proceedings. She moves from White & Case.

‘My move to BSF was prompted by the growth and recent successes of the international arbitration team in the US and in London, and by the opportunity to help drive that growth forward from Washington DC.  I was particularly attracted by BSF’s deep trial law experience and by its commitment to achieving creative, efficient, and successful outcomes for its clients,’ Young told Legal Business.

Simpson Thacher has strengthened its financial institutions practice with a five-partner team hire in the US from Skadden. Sven Mickisch, Brian Christiansen, Bao Nguyen, Matt Nemeroff and Tim Gaffney will join Simpson Thacher’s New York and Washington DC. offices. Mickisch has been appointed as managing partner of the firm’s financial institutions practice, having previously held the role of co-head of the financial institutions group and co-head of the fintech practice at Skadden.

In Germany, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer prepares to welcome leading energy regulation practitioner Stefan Schröder as a partner in Düsseldorf. He joins from Hogan Lovells, where he served as global head of its energy transition group for four years. A longstanding adviser of major European energy infrastructure operators and investors, Schröder brings extensive experience in energy trading, emissions trading, and renewable energy law.

Meanwhile, the firm has added private funds and secondaries partner Ivet Bell to its New York office. She moves from Sidley. Bell’s practice covers the full spectrum of private funds transactions, and she has experience advising on manager formation, GP stakes deals, fund formation, secondaries transactions and LP primary investment and co-investments.

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Leading the high-profile moves this week, Fried Frank has strengthened its London private equity practice with a triple hire from Goodwin. Christian Iwasko , Michelle Tong, and Priya Rupal have departed from Goodwin after a three-year stint, and bring with them experience at Sidley and Kirkland & Ellis.

Elsewhere in the City, Clifford Chance has bolstered its finance team with the addition of Blake Jones from Paul Hastings. Jones departs from Paul Hastings after five years, bringing extensive expertise in structured finance, having previously worked at Linklaters earlier in his career.

Despite this loss, Paul Hastings has ramped up its investigations, white collar, complex litigation, and arbitration practices with a double hire from Latham & Watkins. Oliver Browne has left Latham after 18 years, having most recently served as the London co-chair of the litigation and trial department. Stuart Alford KC left Latham in December 2023 after spending seven years as a partner in the firm’s litigation and trial department, specialising in white-collar crime. Prior to this, he spent four years at the Serious Fraud Office as head of banking fraud.

The firm has also recruited Jessica Ling for its European financial restructuring group in London. Ling, who joins from Akin, brings a wealth of experience advising bondholders, ad hoc committees, credit funds, hedge funds, institutional investors, and insolvency practitioners in complex cross-border restructurings and special situations.

Speaking to LB about her move, she said: ‘I was attracted by the prospect of working alongside talented colleagues as well as the entrepreneurship and collaborative spirit senior management have for the firm’s European and broader global financial restructuring practice. I am excited for the opportunity to grow my own cross-border, creditor-side restructuring practice on the elite platform that the global firm offers.’

She added: ‘The restructuring market is expecting to experience an increase in corporate insolvencies, but whether this is the huge wave that many have been predicting for the past 10 years is yet to be determined. We may start to see in-court restructurings become more litigious, as the appetite of creditors to challenge restructuring increases. The use of liability management exercises to restructure businesses will continue to be popular, as businesses look to avoid the risk and cost of in-court processes.’

Kirkland has welcomed partner Alex Amos to its investment funds group in London. Recognised by The Legal 500 for private funds, Amos joins from Macfarlanes, where he spent more than a decade, and brings with him extensive experience in structuring alternative investments and working with real assets and other strategies across various fund products.

In Birmingham, Shoosmiths has hired Ben Gardener as a partner for its commercial team. He joins from Pinsent Masons, where he spent 13 years, and he will be focusing his efforts on the mobility and technology sectors.

Pointing out three key drivers behind his decision to move, he explained: ‘Firstly, the firm has transformed significantly in recent years and the latest strategy is equally as impressive as it is ambitious. Secondly, Shoosmiths has chosen automotive and mobility as one of its core sectors and it is known for working with many of the world’s biggest brands. My expertise and experience are in the automotive and mobility sector so I want to complement and enhance the firm’s proposition in this space even further. Finally, despite experiencing a period of successful growth and transformation, Shoosmiths has maintained a fantastic culture, putting people at the heart of its business. The firm attracts talented, dedicated and down to earth people, which was another really appealing factor.’

Across the globe, Baker Botts has recruited patent litigators Robert Benson and Jeffrey Johnson, who have joined the firm in San Francisco and Houston, respectively. They come from Orrick, where Benson spent 12 years and Johnson spent eight years.

Orrick has also seen departures in Italy, with Patrizio Messina, head of Europe and structured finance, leading a team to Hogan Lovells. The team includes Annalisa Dentoni-Litta, Madeleine Horrocks, Alessandro Accrocca, and Paola Barometro, as part of a larger group of 23 M&A and finance lawyers moving from Orrick to Hogan Lovells, split between Rome and Milan offices.

Leading Italian independent BonelliErede has also added 15 lawyers from Orrick to its Milan office. The group is led by partner Alessandro De Nicola, and will also include Marco Dell’Antonia and Marco Mancino.

Over in New York, partner Eliot Relles has joined Dechert’s corporate and securities practice group. Relles comes from Weil, where he previously held the position of co-head of its finance group.

Finally, Oskana Lashko has moved to Morrison Foerster in New York after less than two years at DLA Piper. With over 15 years of experience, Lashko specialises in corporate restructuring and bankruptcy, representing various parties in Chapter 11 cases, out-of-court restructurings, cross-border insolvency matters, bankruptcy-related acquisitions, and insolvency-sensitive transactions and investments.

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Simpson Thacher begins this week’s lateral hire round-up with its recruitment of Legal 500 international arbitration leading individual David Edwards from Skadden. Edwards will co-lead the firm’s European disputes practice alongside Tyler Robinson.

The hire brings the London office to a total of five dispute partners: Edwards, Robinson, and antitrust specialists Antonio Bavasso, Ross Ferguson, and Étienne Renaudeau. All three antitrust partners are also listed as partners in the firm’s Brussels office, which opened in September 2021 and is headed by Bavasso and Renaudeau.

‘We intend to grow our disputes capabilities in London and the addition of David is an important step towards that goal’, London office head Jason Glover told Legal Business.

Paul Weiss has continued its London push with the hire of Ropes & Gray competition partner Annie Herdman. She has experience in multijurisdictional merger control and foreign investment strategy and filings, as well as in EU and UK cartel investigations and compliance.

A Legal 500 next generation partner in EU and competition, Herdman made partner at Kirkland in 2019 before moving to Ropes & Gray in March 2022. She joins Paul Weiss as London head of antitrust and foreign direct investment. Her hire follows that of competition heavyweight Nicole Kar, who joined the firm from Linklaters in December as global co-chair of antitrust.

Sidley Austin has lost its London investment funds head James Oussedik to Proskauer. A Legal 500 leading individual for private fund formation and management, Oussedik made partner at Sidley in 2016. He joins Proskauer as a partner in the firm’s private investment funds group and will co-lead its global credit funds and sovereign wealth funds initiatives.

‘It was a strategic priority for us to ensure that we have a senior expert who sits at the heart of both funds and credit’, said private funds group co-head Nigel van Zyl. ‘James fits that bill.’ Oussedik, meanwhile, was attracted by both ‘the quality and scale of the funds offering’ and the firm’s commitment to private capital more broadly. ‘Credit is becoming an increasingly important component of private capital’, he told Legal Business. ‘This move offered me the chance to be in the right place at the right time to capitalise on that.’

Van Zyl pointed to tech, healthcare, and financial services as three key sectors for Proskauer’s private capital clients but noted that it aims to develop a broad offering that can be ‘sector-agnostic’. With a long history in the US and an already established base in London, Van Zyl also expressed a commitment to building out in Europe, particularly in Paris, where the firm hired a 19-lawyer corporate team from Shearman & Sterling in September 2023.

White & Case made two London partner hires, bringing Stephen Shergold into its ESG and sustainability practice and Anthony Tama into its global capital markets practice. Shergold was a partner at Dentons and chair of the firm’s ESG steering group committee, while Tama joins from Cahill. Shergold is also in the Legal 500 Hall of Fame for environmental law.

Adrian Chiodo has left Paul Hastings to join Covington as European head of the firm’s leveraged finance practice. In conversation with Legal Business, Chiodo was enthusiastic about the chance to ‘kickstart’ the firm’s European leveraged finance offering – and optimistic about the prospects of the wider market. ‘It is coming back – if you speak to key investors, they feel the same. And you can see it in law firms, too: they’re getting ready for the next upswing.’

Crowell & Moring has hired Pillsbury partner and Legal 500 Hall of Famer for tech, media, and telecoms Rafi Azim-Khan. With a broad practice covering market entry, technology and product launch, data privacy and cybersecurity, and IP, Azim-Khan will join Crowell’s offices in London and San Francisco and will lead the firm’s digital law practice in Europe.

Keystone Law has announced a raft of hires, bringing over a total of 13 lawyers: 12 as partners and one as a consultant solicitor. The new arrivals notably included two Legal 500 Hall of Famers: Hogan Lovells’ Charles Rix, ranked in insurance: corporate and regulatory, and Forsters’ Jonathan Ross, ranked in property litigation. The firm has also brought over Legal 500 clinical negligence: defendant leading individual Matthew Trinder from Browne Jacobson, as well as Will Robinson, who was head of legal at Anglo American.

Financial services lawyer Richard Ellis has returned to Charles Russell Speechlys as a partner after leaving for McDonnell Ellis in August 2022. A regulatory specialist with a focus on fintech, Ellis joins the firm’s financial services regulation and funds group.

Howard Kennedy has grown its real estate team with its hire of Beth Myers, who made partner at Cripps in May 2021, and has experience ranging from commercial landlord and tenant work to corporate acquisitions and disposals.

Bird & Bird has continued to expand in life sciences after its December hire of Nicole Jadeja into its IP practice, bringing over her Pinsent Masons colleague and transactional life sciences lawyer Mario Subramaniam. A legal director at Pinsents, Subramaniam joins the firm as a partner.

‘Life sciences is the second biggest sector we have, behind tech and comms’, international life sciences and healthcare group co-head Mark Hilton told Legal Business. ‘It’s the fastest-growing sector, and we see lots of opportunities for that growth to accelerate.’

Jadeja concurred: ‘A lot of firms say they do life sciences work, but it’s important to scratch below the surface. Having one or two people who have done a couple of life sciences transactions is very different to having the bench strength to support life sciences companies in all areas, which Bird & Bird does.’

Overseas, Allen & Overy followed up its November hires of Norton Rose Fulbright cybersecurity incident response partners Ffion Flockhart and Charlie Weston-Simons with the announcement of a full five-partner team. The firm has brought over three more Norton Rose partners to join Flockhart as global head of cybersecurity and Weston-Simons: Sydney-based Anna Gamvros, who will lead the APAC privacy and cyber practice; Perth-based Ross Phillipson; and New York-based Anna Rudawski.

In Chicago, meanwhile, Clyde & Co has hired a nine-lawyer team led by Lewis Brisbois Chicago managing partner Danny Worker. Worker’s practice focuses on insurance coverage and bad-faith litigation and the hires bring the firm’s Chicago office, opened in 2017, to a total of 29 lawyers and eight partners. It continues a push to expand in the US that saw it open in Boston earlier this month.

Freshfields has announced it would bring Deutsche Bank chief innovation officer Gil Perez into the firm as global chief innovation officer from April. Silicon Valley-based Perez has experience working with clients to assist them in adopting novel technologies, including generative AI.

HFW has appointed Mike Giles as its new chief financial officer. Formerly CFO at Fieldfisher, Giles comes to the firm amid a year of expansion that has seen it make a raft of lateral hires around the world and launch a new office in Shenzhen, with strong financial results to show.

Julia Spain has joined Ashurst’s risk advisory business from KPMG. Spain is a member of the UK government’s Cyber Advisory Board, and has extensive experiences in counterterrorism, with nine years’ practice in government intelligence.

In another non-legal appointment, Irwin Mitchell has brought in Richard Baigent as an international trade consultant. Baigent joins from the Department of Business and Trade (DBT), where he was international trade adviser for the financial, professional and business advisory sector. His role at Irwin Mitchell will see him focus on ‘facilitating strong working relationships between Irwin Mitchell’s desk’leads and sector heads, with the relevant teams at DBT’, the firm said in a statement.

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It has been a busy week for White & Case, with the firm seeing the return of Patrick Sarch to its global mergers and acquisitions practice in London. He will be head of UK public M&A in the London corporate/ M&A group.

Sarch worked at White & Case between January 2017 and March 2021, moving to Hogan Lovells in March 2021, where he was co-head of the firms UK M&A practice. He advises on corporate finance, cross-border, and domestic public company M&A.

The firm has also strengthened its global debt finance practice with the addition of Lauren Winter as a partner. Winter moves from Shearman & Sterling and has worked previously at Paul Hastings and Allen & Overy. Specialising in cross-border and UK acquisition finance and restructuring, Winter advises on syndicated cov-lite financings, second lien loan financings, unitranche financing, super-senior revolving credit facility and high yield bond financings.

Speaking to Legal Business about her move, Winter said: ‘I’m excited to join White & Case and its strong and established debt finance team in London and the wider EMEA region. White & Case has built an outstanding, broad finance practice that spans bank lending, private credit and borrower finance, which is an ideal fit with the focus of my practice advising investment banks, alternative credit providers, corporate borrowers and private equity sponsors on a variety of acquisition financings and restructurings.’

Meanwhile, in Germany the firm has hired competition partner Ingo Brinker to its global antitrust practice. He will be based in Düsseldorf and moves from Gleiss Lutz. He advises on investigations, merger control, compliance programmes and litigation before the European Commission, the European Court of Justice, the European General Court and the German Federal Cartel Office and the German antitrust courts.

Elsewhere, CMS has bolstered its real estate team in London with the appointment of partner Rebecca Moore. Moore specialises in the private rented sector and affordable living sector, with her client base spanning residential funds, institutional clients, and developers. She moves from BCLP.

‘When I was considering a move, I knew I wanted to go to a top-ranked firm for real estate. The direction of my career over the last few years has been focused on the private rental sector and affordable housing. My clients are mainly institutional funds looking for a full-package legal service, so I was looking for a firm that didn’t just have a real estate offering. I knew that CMS had a focus on real estate but also had expertise across all sectors. It was clear to me that I would be working in a key strategic area for CMS,’ Moore told Legal Business.

CMS has built out its UK real estate practice over the past year with several new partner appointments including Barry Edgar, Michael Buchanan, Melanie Hughes, Helen Johnson, Helen Balliger, and David Hardy.

Rosenblatt has launched an international arbitration practice headed by Leonardo Carpentieri and Sara Paradisi. Carpentieri moves from international arbitration boutique LMS Legal and advises on commercial and treaty arbitration matters, with a client base that spans the energy, infrastructure, engineering, mining, hospitality, financial services, and construction sectors. Meanwhile, Paradisi joins from BCLP and specialises in contentious construction and international arbitration relating to construction, engineering, infrastructure, and mining projects.

‘We are really excited about this venture and joining Rosenblatt. It is a tremendous opportunity for us as a duo. We come from similar backgrounds, but we have our own diverse experiences. Sara has spent a few years in Asia and focuses on that region, while my practice is more focused on the Middle East,’ Carpentieri told Legal Business.

‘In terms of the Rosenblatt brand, the very appealing thing is we are not just joining its disputes arm, we are joining a full-service firm, which is ranked successfully in other areas such as corporate and real estate. That’s obviously going to be useful as we expand,’ Paradisi explained.

Simmons & Simmons has appointed data centre and real estate specialist Barry Gross as a partner. Gross also moves from BCLP and will join Simmons’ multidisciplinary data centre team. His practice focuses on new developments and leasing, mergers and acquisitions, sales and financing, with a particular specialism in data centres.

Elsewhere, Bracewell has hired Mark Hunting, who joins the firm’s disputes team in its London office. As a qualified solicitor-advocate, Hunting specialises in internal and external investigations, business-related criminal and regulatory matters such as bribery and money laundering, financial institution trading regulations and financial and trade sanctions. He moves from BP where he was managing counsel for competition and regulatory compliance.

In international moves, Paul Hastings has appointed M&A partner Nikolaos Paschos to its Frankfurt office. He moves from Latham & Watkins and will chair the German M&A practice. His clients include TeamViewer, Brenntag and Allianz.

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Leading the high-profile moves this week, Baker McKenzie has welcomed partner Eric Schwartzman to head up its private equity practice in California, joining from Latham & Watkins.

With 25 years’ experience, Schwartzman specialises in advising private equity sponsors and companies on corporate matters, including M&A, recapitalisations, restructurings, and joint ventures across various industries.

He told Legal Business: ‘Every company is a tech company, and every company is global. Bakers has a fantastic offering on both counts. The firm has a large M&A tech group that has developed over the past four years, and the global footprint is unparalleled. Now the firm is building up private equity and will continue to serve our clients globally. This was very attractive.’

In a move to strengthen its civil litigation practice in New York, Davis Polk has hired long-time Cravath partner Rory Leraris. Leaving behind her former firm after 15 years, Leraris brings with her experience representing corporations, financial institutions, asset managers, boards of directors and individuals.

Also in New York, Cravath faced another blow as M&A partner Sanjay Murti jumped over to Freshfields’ corporate department. Murti’s practice focuses on M&A, shareholder activism defence, corporate governance, and other corporate matters.

Elsewhere in the US, Willkie has hired Michael Li-Ming Wong as a litigation partner and co-chair of the firm’s national white-collar defence group. Leaving behind Gibson Dunn after 12 years, Wong focuses his practice on white-collar criminal matters, complex civil litigation, data privacy matters, and internal investigations.

Back in London, Brown Rudnick has appointed Paul Feldberg as head of white-collar defence, investigations and compliance in the UK. Feldberg joins from US firm Jenner & Block where he was a partner for five years, and was co-chair of the firm’s national security sanctions and export control group and the bribery and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act group. Earlier in his career, Feldberg served as a senior prosecutor at the Serious Fraud Office.

‘My clients are predominantly large multinational corporations, so I look forward to collaborating with colleagues across practices on both sides of the Atlantic and leveraging Brown Rudnick’s strengths from M&A to brand and reputation management. Also, a lot of my clients are based in Europe or have to comply with regulations there, so it’s beneficial that London is Brown Rudnick’s European hub,’ said Felberg.

Also in London, Hamlins has bolstered its employment practice with the hire of partner Penny Hunt, who joins from Bird & Bird where she was a legal director. Bringing with her over two decades of experience, Hunt advises employers on employment issues across a range of sectors, including tech, financial services and entertainment. She has previously worked at both DAC Beachcroft and Baker McKenzie.

Hunt said: ‘Hamlins is a successful and dynamic firm with big ambitions and its client base and industry coverage fit very well with my practice.’

In Europe, after 12 years at Linklaters, Charlotte Colin-Dubuisson has moved over to Freshfields as a partner in Paris. Joining the antitrust, competition and trade team. She brings with her experience in the fast-moving consumer goods market, luxury, waste management, metal and auto parts industries.

In Luxembourg, Ashurst has welcomed Jean-Philippe Smeets as a partner in the corporate team, joining from Baker McKenzie. His experience includes advising on a variety of domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, private equity and commercial transactions both in Luxembourg and Belgian law.

Isabelle Lentz, partner and Luxembourg corporate team lead, told LB: ‘We are thrilled to be joined by Jean-Philippe, a well-respected, commercially and client-focused practitioner, and I am confident he will be a great asset to the firm. Jean-Philippe’s extensive experience advising on national and cross-border transactions in the financial services sector is the perfect complement to our existing strengths and allows us to enrich our client offering.’

Finally, Fieldfisher has hired Pedro Claros as a partner for its international arbitration practice in Madrid. Claros, who founded dispute resolution firm Claros Abogados, joins with over 25 years’ experience in investor-state and commercial arbitration, with a focus on renewable energy, infrastructure, engineering and construction.

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Quinn Emanuel made a significant move in London this week, hiring restructuring veteran David Ereira from Paul Hastings. In the Legal 500 Hall of Fame for corporate restructuring and insolvency, Ereira has a wealth of experience advising clients from governments to debtors, creditors, and investors on a wide range of insolvency and restructuring issues.

Ereira’s practice at Paul Hastings included non-contentious work, and this makes him a somewhat uncharacteristic hire for disputes-focused Quinn.

London senior partner Richard East was keen to downplay any suggestion that the move marks a ‘radical shift’ for the firm: ‘We’ve been in insolvency and restructuring for as long as I’ve been at Quinn’, he told Legal Business. ‘We’ll slightly extend the sort of work we do in that field, but not by much. David does do some transactional work, but much of that is distressed transactions. His practice is very aligned already with ours, and I don’t see any problem with him continuing to do transactional work within the context of Quinn Emanuel.’

Meanwhile, one of Ereira’s former firms, Freshfields, was one of several building up in funds this week, bringing over Akin Gump partner Mary Lavelle as global co-head of the private funds and secondaries (PFS) group alongside New York-based Tim Clark, who joined from Goodwin last July.

A partner at Akin since 2019, Lavelle is recognised as a next-generation partner in the Legal 500 for private funds, and has broad experience across fund formation and asset management, including in secondary transactions.

Elsewhere, funds partner John Anderson has left Debevoise for Goodwin. Anderson has experience advising clients around the globe on a range of regulatory, tax, financing, and other issues.

Anderson explained the motivation behind his move: ‘There are only a number of firms that tick all the right boxes. You need an outstanding private funds formation practice to begin with; you need tax and regulatory support on a global basis; and, particularly for credit funds, you need a strong finance practice. Goodwin gets a check on all of those.’

Private investment funds co-chair Michael Halford commented on the firm’s strategy: ‘We already have a very strong fund formation team in London but we’ve wanted to increase our coverage in a couple of areas for some time, and credit funds has been one of them. We’ve also focused on secondaries, where we were fortunate to hire Jacqueline Eaves from Kirkland last year. Hiring John gives us the chance to really build on the credit side.’

While he noted a challenging macroeconomic environment, Anderson was optimistic about the future of credit funds work: ‘No one can ever perfectly predict the future. But if you believe that things will settle down enough that people can get back to business – not to rampant growth, but to a reasonable level of deployment of all the dry powder that’s out there right now. If you believe that, then that will mean a very reasonable amount of fund formation work in 2024-25.’

Also active in funds is Squire Patton Boggs, which has hired David Nisbet into its London tax strategy & benefits practice group from Osborne Clarke, where he made partner in 2018 and served as private equity tax team head. Nisbet has a broad practice advising clients from ultra-high net worth individuals to funds and corporates on a host of tax issues, and his hire sees the firm continue to invest in the London funds practice it launched with its June 2021 hire of current Europe investment funds team lead Steven Ward.

‘We see this as a critical part of our growth both in the transactional practices generally and in private equity and fund-related work’, said Cleveland-based tax strategy and benefits practice lead Mitch Thompson. ‘The transactions we work on demand really sophisticated tax expertise, and David brings that coupled with a skillset that is especially key to private equity transactions and fund formation.’

Nisbet focused on Squire’s international reach as a motivator for his move: ‘The transactions I’m advising funds clients on are increasingly international in focus. Both due to asset prices in the UK and the competition for prized assets in the private equity market more generally, a lot of traditionally UK-focused funds in the mid-market are now looking overseas. One of the attractions of Squire is the firm’s global presence, both in the key financial hubs in Europe and across the Atlantic. It’s particularly attractive to clients to have their cross-border legal and tax advice provided under the one roof.’

Manchester-based UK and Europe tax lead Patrick Ford, meanwhile, pointed to the state of the wider market as a reason behind the firm’s investment in both tax and PE work more generally. ‘It’s not quite the boom we had in 2021 and early 2022’, he said. ‘That was about as busy as it gets and virtually everyone was busy. It’s different now. There’s still a lot out there, but it’s for firms who can prove they can do the job well, rather than just everyone being busy. I’m happy to say we have a strong pipeline.’

Ashurst, meanwhile, has brought Akin partner Gavin Weir in as UK head of financial institutions M&A. A Legal 500 leading individual in upper-mid-market and premium deals, Weir comes to the firm with broad experience in domestic and cross border mergers, acquisitions, and finance.

‘We continue to experience strong demand for our services in the financial services sector’, said Jason Radford, Ashurst’s global co-head of corporate. ‘We’ve identified this sector as one where we can continue to grow.’

Radford also pointed to the firm’s hire of Clifford Chance corporate partner Stefan Bruder, who will join the Munich office with Norton Rose Fulbright ESG transactions specialist Marina Arntzen in February. ‘Gavin and Stefan’s arrivals are part of our long-term strategic growth plan for financial industry group M&A. While we have no imminent announcements to make, we don’t rest on our laurels. We are always looking for ways to expand our offering and to deliver more for our key clients.’

Also in London, BCLP has brought in Locke Lord energy co-heads Kevin Atkins and Matthew Daffurn to its energy, environment and infrastructure (EEI) practice group. At Locke Lord since 2016 and 2020, respectively, Atkins and Daffurn have experience advising clients on global project financing, project development, and corporate matters.

‘BCLP is a very attractive platform’, said Atkins. ‘Energy transition is an ever-larger part of our dealflow, from small-scale things like VC investment into clean tech to big-ticket projects. There’s a huge environmental and real estate element to a lot of these projects, and BCLP is very well placed for that.’

For EMEA head of EEI, Mark Richards, it is a particularly interesting time to build up in the infrastructure sector. ‘BlackRock’s acquisition of GIP is another signal that infrastructure as an asset class has arrived’, he told Legal Business. ‘Working with big developers lets us show private equity clients that we don’t just understand the sector but the assets too. Adding people like Kevin and Matt will just help the boat go faster. It’s a fantastic opportunity to build what’s already a growing business.’

The moves see Locke Lord’s London strength dwindle. The firm’s site now lists only two energy and infrastructure professionals in the office: Kieran Stone, who joined from Memery Crystal in November 2022, and Paul Neufeld, who splits his time between London and Houston.

Elsewhere Ben Eaton, a shareholder at Greenberg Traurig, has left the firm to become a tax partner at Mayer Brown. Eaton is also a member of the Law Society’s tax committee, and comes to Mayer Brown with a particular focus on the real estate sector, where he will advise on cross-border transactions and investment funds matters.

Morrison Foerster has brought former Deutsche Bank global head of sanctions advisory, Chloe Cina, into its national security practice. A qualified barrister, Cina worked at the Government Legal Department and Foreign and Commonwealth Office before moving to HSBC in 2016 and Deutsche Bank in 2018.

Pinsent Masons has expanded its London technology, media and telecoms team with the hires of Paul Hinton and Ed Baker from Deloitte Legal. Technology and data licensing transactions specialist Hinton and complex technology, data, and sourcing transactions partner Baker were both partners at tech boutique Kemp Little, which Deloitte acquired in February 2021. The hires see the firm continue to grow its TMT platform following its hires of cyber and data risk specialist Eleanor Ludlam from DAC Beachcroft in March 2023, tech litigator Emily Cox from Stewarts in October, and data protection specialist Jaya Handa, who returned to the firm after an in-house stint at Liberty Specialty Markets in July.

Taylor Wessing has announced that Lewis Silkin IP partner Giles Crown will join its London office in February, bringing expertise in a range of IP regulatory advisory matters, from data protection to marketing and reputation management.

Finally in London, Seddons and Burgess Mee were active in the family law space, with Seddons hiring JMW Solicitors partner David Thompson and Burgess Mee bringing Rachel Freeman over from Kingsley Napley.

Overseas, White & Case has launched a Johannesburg commercial litigation practice with its hire of Baker McKenzie Johannesburg disputes practice head Darryl Bernstein. Bernstein comes to the firm with experience in cross-border and domestic litigation and arbitration across a range of sectors, as well as in providing regulatory compliance advice to clients subject to investigation by regulators including the US Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission.

In Melbourne, HFW has hired a four-lawyer team from Clyde & Co, led by partner Maurice Thompson. A litigator with particular experience in maritime law, Thompson co-founded HFW’s first Australian office in Melbourne in 2006 and returns to the firm with an established litigation funding practice.

Eversheds Sutherland has brought over a ten-lawyer team from KWM (China) into its Frankfurt office, including partners Daniel Ehret, Sandra Link, Hui Zhao, and Christian Ostermöller. All four will join the firm’s company commercial practice, and will double the number of partners in Eversheds’ Frankfurt office, which opened in January 2023, to eight. The move is part of the cooperation agreement that Eversheds and KWM signed in July last year, which saw KWM commit to closing its offices across the UK, Europe, and the Middle East by October 2024.

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Defying its US strategy critics, Linklaters’ New York office began the week with the hire of a six-lawyer M&A team from Shearman & Sterling. Led by Legal 500 Hall of Famer for $1bn-plus M&A deals, George Casey, the team also includes partners Heiko Schiwek and Gregory Gewirtz.

Casey, who had been global managing partner at Shearman from 2018, joins Linklaters as its global co-chair of corporate. Key mandates for Casey include Celanese’s $11bn all-cash acquisition of most of DuPont’s mobility and materials business in 2022, and DuPont and Dow Chemical’s $130bn merger in 2015.

Schiwek will join as one of Linklaters global chemical sector leaders. He has experience advising on US domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, including public company acquisitions, carve-out sales, joint venture transactions, and strategic investments. Meanwhile, Gewirtz focuses on public and private M&A, including divestiture, minority investments, financial advisory assignments, carve-outs, and joint ventures.

Elsewhere, Norton Rose Fulbright has lost a further partner, with commercial litigator Radford Goodman leaving for Mishcon de Reya. Goodman’s practice focuses on contentious insolvency, banking and finance, civil fraud, enforcement of security, and international asset recovery. He has acted for the US trustee of Lehman Brothers on UK litigation concerning the ownership of securities and advised the provisional liquidators of Rafidain Bank.

Meanwhile, Akin has hired London financial restructuring partner Jacqueline Ingram. Ingram moves from Milbank, and was previously at Cadwalader. Her clients include distressed investors, corporates, CLOs, and credit committees. Ingram specialises in downside protection, developing structures focused on maximising recoveries and preserving value. She also has experience advising on special situations financings and direct lending.

Fieldfisher has hired a medical negligence team from Irwin Mitchell, including partners Ian Christian, Shivi Nathan, and senior associate Rachel Morgan. The team specialises in high-value birth injury, neonatal claims, and maternal death cases. Alongside this Christian runs a sports injury practice where he advises elite athletes on substandard medical treatment claims.

Speaking to Legal Business, Christian said: ‘We were attracted by the firm’s fantastic reputation and the growth in its PI department really stood out. It was hugely appealing to see a firm progressing in that direction. We feel we sit very well within the firm’s culture. From a client care perspective, Fieldfisher has a fantastic reputation in our sector.’

King & Spalding has bolstered its UK employment offering with the appointment of Tessa Cranfield to its global human capital and compliance practice. Cranfield moves from Seyfarth Shaw. She advises both public and private clients on the full life cycle of UK and international employment law issues and has a particular geographic focus on Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

Elsewhere, Eversheds Sutherland has appointed Claire Gregory as a partner in its environmental health and safety team. Gregory moves from Mills & Reeve, where she was formerly head of its environment practice. Covering both contentious and non-contentious issues she has experience advising on contaminated land and brownfield site development, climate change and sustainability, environmental permitting, waste regulation, producer responsibility, water pollution and statutory nuisance.

‘Eversheds is a huge global firm, and it gives me a global platform to grow the environmental practice. The client base is really impressive, and I’ve transitioned a few clients over as well. The ESG offering is already very well developed and I’m looking to be part of the “E” side of things. One of my key aims is to build a bespoke environmental litigation practice as well as building on the advisory practice,’ Gregory explained.

HFW has recruited partner David Savage to its sanctions and regulatory investigations practice. Savage was previously head of financial crime at Stewarts. He specialises in international sanctions, internal and regulatory investigations into corporate and individual criminal and regulatory wrongdoing and general financial crime.

‘The sanctions landscape is getting increasingly convoluted, so I wanted to move to a platform where my sanctions expertise could be properly utilised to help clients both domestically and internationally. Ten years ago, sanctions was seen as a niche area of law and now anyone with an international footprint has an eye on the sanctions ball,’ Savage said.

Discussing his ambitions for the practice Daniel Martin, lead sanctions partner at HFW said: ‘The team has been incredibly busy over the last five months, there isn’t really a client in our little black book that isn’t impacted by sanctions at the moment. We are increasingly seeing regulators with a real appetite to enforce, and clients need that prompt strategic advice that people like us are well equipped to deliver.’

Finally, Kingsley Napley has bolstered its public law offering with the addition of two senior government lawyers. Natalie Cohen moves from the Government Legal Department, where she oversaw litigation in departments including the Treasury, the Ministry of Justice, the Department for Education, and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. She is joined by Harry Carter, Lord Carter of Haslemere CB, who was general counsel at 10 Downing Street from 2016 to 2023. He has held senior roles at the Home Office and at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.

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