The past week saw Monckton Chambers attract a five-barrister public law team led by Ian Wise QC from Doughty Street Chambers, as Arnold & Porter launched a City financial services practice with the hire of Katten Muchin Rosenman’s Tim Aron, Dentons grew its Hong Kong finance practice with the hire of Jeff Chen from Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft and Mayer Brown established a corporate and securities practice in its Palo Alto office with a dual partner relocation. Continue reading “Revolving Doors: Monckton attracts public law team; Arnold & Porter launches City financial services; Dentons grows in HK”
Fieldfisher bolsters Paris office with trio of lateral hires
Fieldfisher has bolstered its Paris office with a trio of local lateral hires, including M&A lawyer Pascal Squercioni and tax specialist Antoine Gabizon from UGGC and competition partner Anne-Laure-Hélène des Ylouses from French boutique YGMA, a firm she co-founded in 2004. Continue reading “Fieldfisher bolsters Paris office with trio of lateral hires”
RPC bolsters insurance and marine teams with double hire from Clydes and Holman Fenwick
RPC has strengthened its insurance and marine capability in the UK and Asia with the hire of senior insurance litigation partner Leigh Williams from Clyde & Co and shipping and international trade partner Steven Wise from Holman Fenwick Willan (HFW) in Hong Kong. Continue reading “RPC bolsters insurance and marine teams with double hire from Clydes and Holman Fenwick”
Herbert Smith Freehills launches German competition practice with hire of Taylor Wessing head Michael Dietrich
Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) has moved one step closer to offering clients a full service out of its still fledgling German offices with the launch of local competition capability led by Taylor Wessing’s former regional practice head Michael Dietrich. Continue reading “Herbert Smith Freehills launches German competition practice with hire of Taylor Wessing head Michael Dietrich”
Revolving Doors: DLA hires in France and the US; Simmons grows Bristol; Gibson Dunn expands in Beijing and Hong Kong
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. Continue reading “Revolving Doors: DLA hires in France and the US; Simmons grows Bristol; Gibson Dunn expands in Beijing and Hong Kong”
Reed Smith builds City finance practice with Pinsents REF partner Matthew Heaton
Reed Smith continues to piece together its City finance offering with a series of lateral hires, as Pinsent Masons partner Matthew Heaton becomes the latest to make the switch, joining the firm’s international real estate finance practice. Continue reading “Reed Smith builds City finance practice with Pinsents REF partner Matthew Heaton”
Double exit for Osborne Clarke as telecoms chief leaves for Reed Smith and technology head to Fieldfisher
Top 40 firm Osborne Clarke has suffered the double exit of telecoms head Angus Finnegan to Reed Smith and technology head Mark Webber to Fieldfisher.
Finnegan joins Reed Smith’s media and technology (MT) practice in London, becoming the group’s thirteenth partner in the capital. Continue reading “Double exit for Osborne Clarke as telecoms chief leaves for Reed Smith and technology head to Fieldfisher”
Further Edwards Wildman City fallout as CMS set to take on corporate partner
The fallout from the embattled City office of US firm Edwards Wildman continues as it emerges that corporate partners Eero Rautalahti and Stuart Blythe have resigned, with Blythe set to join CMS Cameron McKenna. It was not known at the time of going to press where Rautalahti is headed. Continue reading “Further Edwards Wildman City fallout as CMS set to take on corporate partner”
Olswang’s head of real estate finance quits for Dechert
Olswang’s head of real estate finance Eleni Skordaki has quit the firm after nearly ten years to join Dechert’s City finance and real estate group.
Skordaki specialises in advising banks in real estate financings and restructurings. Continue reading “Olswang’s head of real estate finance quits for Dechert”
Herbert Smith Freehills boosts US investigations with hire of former assistant attorney and SEC chief John O’Donnell
Herbert Smith Freehills’ (HSF’s) Manhattan office has capitalised on the US revolving door with the hire of John O’Donnell, a former assistant US attorney and branch chief in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s enforcement unit, who joins to boost the top 10 UK firm’s New York investigations division. Continue reading “Herbert Smith Freehills boosts US investigations with hire of former assistant attorney and SEC chief John O’Donnell”