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After the summer lull, the City lateral hiring scene has come roaring back with a flood of arrivals across a number of practice areas including banking and finance, insurance, disputes and restructuring.

Akin Gump has recruited former Norton Rose Fulbright partners Matthew Hardwick and Daniel Giemajner as project finance partners in its London office. Focusing on energy and infrastructure projects, their expertise spans renewable power, mining, gigafactories, battery and energy storage, electric vehicles, carbon capture and clean hydrogen. Continue reading “Revolving Doors: Akin Gump recruits project finance pair amid busy week for City players”

There is an international flavour to this week’s round-up, as a muted City market was offset by a flurry of movement on the global stage.

The headline London arrivals came at King & Spalding, which has welcomed partners Richard Kitchen and Amin Doulai into its corporate, finance and investments group. Both arrive from Paul Hastings and have significant experience in the private credit field, having advised on leveraged acquisition and corporate finance transactions. Continue reading “Revolving Doors: King & Spalding expands City private credit group as Kirkland recruits two from Latham in Chicago”

The recruitment market was back in full swing after the annual summer hiatus, as elite firms made significant hires in insurance, competition and litigation this week.

The headline arrival came at Skadden, where corporate and insurance partner Robert Chaplin joined the financial institutions group. A partner at Slaughter and May since 2006, Chaplin’s wide ranging practice spans corporate, commercial and financing, with a particular focus on the insurance and asset management industries. Continue reading “Revolving Doors: Slaughters stalwart exits for Skadden as global players bring in disputes hands”

As the market readies itself for the inevitable back-to-school hiring spree, August has nevertheless seen its fair share of lateral activity.

Among those firms which have announced investments this week, Kirkland & Ellis bolstered its funds practice with the addition of two Legal 500 ranked next generation partners in London. Catherine Gokah joined from Ashurst and is credited with bringing experience advising sponsors on fundraising activities across a range of alternative asset classes including infrastructure, real estate and credit. Meanwhile, Louisa Cobbe, who specialises in real estate investments, joined from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner. Continue reading “Revolving Doors: Swings and roundabouts for DLA as Kirkland boosts City funds practice”

Restructuring, real estate, corporate and employment were the focus of the lateral hiring game this week, as firms returned to recruitment with renewed vigour.

The headline move was at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, where Lisa Stevens arrived from Kirkland & Ellis. The move sees Stevens break her streak of working for US firms, having trained at Mayer Brown before going on to Gibson Dunn and Latham & Watkins before Kirkland. At those firms, she has worked on bespoke special situations transactions on behalf of global clients. Continue reading “Revolving Doors: Freshfields brings in Kirkland restructuring partner as White & Case expands corporate practice”

Keystone Law has bucked the trend of a summer slowdown of the lateral market, adding three ‘principals’ across its litigation and real estate teams.

The AIM-listed firm recruited litigators Tracy Sell-Peters and Gregor Kleinknecht from DWF and Hunters Law respectively, while transactional real estate partner Samantha Leigh joined from Freeths. This continues the firm’s acquisitive streak, which has seen it hire 41 principals in the financial year 2021/22, adding to its 51 partner-equivalent hires the previous year.  Continue reading “Revolving Doors: Keystone adds three while Arnold & Porter launches in Amsterdam”

As summer holiday season kicked in amid a quieter lateral market, Shearman & Sterling dominated this week, with the Wall Street stalwart announcing three partner hires across its European offices.

In London, the firm enlisted project development and finance partner Julia Derrick. A specialist in M&A and commercial contracts in the oil and gas sector, Derrick spent her entire career at Ashurst before making the move. Continue reading “Revolving doors: Shearman adds three in Europe as Squire brings in Birmingham corporate lead”