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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”

Laterals hires have continued on both sides of the pond as UK firms make inroads in the US.

Just months on from its London inception at the start of the year, Pallas Partners has announced the launch of US operations with the hire of Duane Loft in New York. Loft, who specialises in restructuring and bankruptcy disputes, will lead the stateside practice, which is soon to welcome further laterals, according to founder and managing partner Natasha Harrison (pictured). Like Harrison, Loft joins from Boies Schiller Flexner after 11 years at the firm. Continue reading “Revolving Doors: Pallas launches in the US as Linklaters takes New York finance duo”

Lateral activity had an international flavour this week, as firms announced new arrivals across Europe, the US and Africa.

Macfarlanes has announced Sophie Donnithorne-Tait as the latest addition to its London tax practice. Capable in all aspects of UK corporate tax and with a specialism in advising investment fund clients, Donnithorne-Tait moves from Akin Gump and will join later in the summer. Continue reading “Revolving doors: One in, one out for Dentons as Macfarlanes boosts City tax offering”

The demand for finance, private equity and technology expertise continues to drive London lateral recruitment.

In the most notable coup of the week, Paul Hastings is set to welcome Latham & Watkins’ banking vice-chair Ross Anderson and fellow partners Mo Nurmohamed, Karan Chopra and Rob Davidson. Although a rare group defection from Latham, this continues Paul Hastings auspicious London growth trajectory which saw a 41% surge in City revenue last year as well as the arrival of Jason Brooks to its structured credit team as well as private equity partner Tom Cartwright last month. Continue reading “Revolving doors: Latham finance partners switch to Paul Hastings as Pinsents launches in Luxembourg”

The international recruitment market remains buoyant with transactional hires dominating.

US giant Goodwin has continued its bullish growth strategy into 2022, following its dramatic expansion in 2021 that saw nine lateral hires in London alone. This week, the firm bolstered its financial regulatory expertise with the addition in London of Andrew Henderson from Macfarlanes and private equity partner Daniel Dusek in Hong Kong from Kirkland & Ellis. Continue reading “Revolving doors: Linklaters loses three while Goodwin makes global gains”

US firms have dominated transactional recruitment this week while UK-headquartered peers have focused on bolstering their disputes capabilities.

Paul Hastings continues its auspicious London growth trajectory, which saw its City revenue surge 41% in 2021/22, with a dual partner hire. The firm announced the addition of Jason Brooks to its structured credit team this week following the arrival of private equity partner Tom Cartwright last week. Continue reading “Revolving Doors: Paul Hastings adds two as McDermott boosts energy expertise”

M&A, tech, healthcare and IP were the focus of lateral recruitment this week, as firms continue to invest in areas faring strongly against the current economic uncertainty.

Cooley has recruited healthcare and life sciences partner Frances Stocks Allen (pictured) into its London office. Continue reading “Revolving Doors: Cooley brings in City healthcare partner as White & Case adds three globally”