Sidley Austin has continued to expand its London energy and infrastructure team with its hire of Ben Thompson from Travers Smith. The new hire enhances the firm’s London offering in this practice, which it strengthened in March last year with the hires of James MacArthur and Ed Freeman from Weil, Gotshal & Manges.
Thompson joined Travers as a partner in 2021 after spending nearly six years at Weil, where he worked with MacArthur, as an associate and then a counsel. ‘He’s worked with a number of clients that we continue to work with now’, MacArthur told Legal Business, ‘so the transition should be seamless.’ A year on from joining the firm, MacArthur was proud of his team’s progress. ‘We’re very excited to build the platform’, he said. ‘Our strategy is to grow on a targeted basis – it has to be the right people.’
