International expansion last week saw DLA Piper hire Holman Fenwick Willan’s (HFW) Paris head of tax Hervé Israël and bolster its US practice with a double litigation partner hire from Greenberg Traurig, while Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher expanded in Beijing and Hong Kong. Closer to home, Simmons & Simmons bolstered its growing Bristol presence with the hire of Osborne Clarke corporate partner Patrick Graves.
Israël, who was previously head of tax at Hogan Lovells in Paris before assuming the same position at HFW, joins DLA Piper in the French capital with more than a decade of experience in corporate tax matters, including the structuring and financing of M&A transactions, asset financing and securitisation transactions and acquisition structuring.
