In April, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan reinforced its City competition practice with the hire of Elaine Whiteford from Covington & Burling, who brings with her a focus on follow-on damages litigation – a particular area of interest for the disputes specialist.
Ropes & Gray, meanwhile, made a financial regulation play with the hire of O’Melveny & Myers London partner Eve Ellis, who becomes Ropes’ 24th partner in its City office.
Mishcon de Reya launched a new debt advisory service following the recruitment of real estate partner Omega Poole from Brown Rudnick, where she advised on a variety of single-asset and portfolio transactions.
Hogan Lovells made a move across the Atlantic with Californian litigator Christopher Cox joining the firm’s Silicon Valley arm. Cox joins from Weil, Gotshal & Manges, where he led the firm’s Californian complex commercial litigation practice.
DLA Piper made an addition to its new Dublin branch, hiring Caoimhe Clarkin from recently-crowned Legal Business International Firm of the Year, A&L Goodbody. The move is the UK firm’s seventh partner hire in Ireland this year.
Eversheds Sutherland also made a key hire, recruiting financial products and payments partner Tony Anderson from Pinsent Masons. Anderson’s practice focuses on payments work, including product portfolio review and remediation, as well as debt finance transactions.
King & Spalding has continued its recent hiring spree with the double City hire of project development and financing partner, Nikhil Markanday, and arbitration and public international partner Giorgio Mandelli. Markanday joins from Ashurst’s corporate and investment practice, while Mandelli joins from the trial and global disputes practice of boutique Volterra Fietta in London.