The past week was one for lateral hires outside the City, as Brodies boosted its oil and gas practice with the hire of former Transocean general counsel for Africa and the Mediterranean, Tom Hickey; Squire Sanders beefed up its construction team in Manchester with former head of construction and engineering and corporate services at Pannone, Sean McCay; and Bird & Bird bolstered its Brussels base with the second competition partner exit from Ashurst’s Brussels office in two months.
Dual-qualified in England and Wales and the State of California, upstream oil and gas expert Hickey is to join Brodies’ Aberdeen-led oil & gas team on 6 April but will continue to operate from Paris, where he has been based for the last 15 months while with Transocean.
