Six months after financial regulatory head Bob Penn quit for Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Allen & Overy (A&O) has replenished the ranks with the hire of Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) partner Nick Bradbury. Bradbury returns to the Magic Circle after moving to HSF from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in 2015.
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Simmons & Simmons has announced credit-investment platform Alterest Investment Technologies, hourly car-insurance provider Cuvva, banking platform RailBank and invoicing firm Tallysticks as the first four recipients of free legal advice through its new fintech fund.
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Goodwin Procter announced today (5 October) that a team from Shearman & Sterling will be joining their private equity practice in Paris as of mid-October.
Continue reading “Shearman exits continue as Paris duo follow global head out the door”
Victoria Young and Madeleine Farman analyse the changes in Freshfields’ finance practice
‘I could have spent another ten years punching the clock but I wanted to build a business, and do more than just be another Freshfields [Bruckhaus Deringer] banking partner,’ reflects one former hand at the Magic Circle firm. It’s a refrain that strikes a chord among the sizeable group of notable finance practitioners who have plied their trade at Fleet Street over the years.
Legal Business caught up with Allen & Overy’s (A&O) new global co-head of leveraged finance, Scott Zemser. Continue reading “Q&A: Allen & Overy’s Scott Zemser talks leveraged finance, lockstep and competing in the US”
US firm Proskauer Rose has hired leveraged finance partner Ben Davis from Reed Smith as it ramps up growth of its finance team in the City.
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Allen & Overy (A&O) has made a major addition to its US finance practice with the lateral hire of four partners in New York. The Magic Circle firm took three partners from White & Case, one from Proskauer Rose, as well as adding an associate from Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy as partner.
Axiom and Ashurst follow with similar service to meet regulations
In the first marquee joint venture between a Magic Circle firm and a Big Four accountant, Allen & Overy (A&O) and Deloitte have teamed up to create a tech-driven service to help banks handle post-Lehman regulation.
Ashurst has continued to hire into its banking practice, appointing King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) partner Robert Andrews to its London office. Continue reading “Ashurst extends banking practice with KWM funds finance hire”
Latham & Watkins has bolstered its regulatory and disputes offering in the City with the hire of Ashurst’s head of financial services regulation Rob Moulton.
