Taylor Wessing loses practice head as Latham targets UK mid-market for first City tech laterals
Latham & Watkins has become the latest US player to expand its City emerging company capabilities by targeting two mid-market UK…
Strategic recruitment
Revolving doors: Goodwin recruits CMS private equity head as Shoosmiths adds cyber partner in London
In a relatively subdued week for the London lateral market, Goodwin Procter and Shoosmiths made the only noteworthy hires in the…
Revolving doors: City laterals abound as RPC hires DWF restructuring head and Linklaters recruits White & Case banking partner
Firms got back into the swing of City hiring last week after an early January lull as RPC added DWF’s…
Late to the party: Reed Smith hires partners from five firms for Brussels launch
Reed Smith has opened its fifth European office in Brussels, following the hire of five partners to the firm’s corporate…
Revolving doors: Crowell & Moring recruits seventh Squire partner in a year as Linklaters loses real estate disputes head
The City lateral recruitment market is struggling to return to pre-Christmas activity levels, with only two firms making notable partner…
International roundup: Dentons enters Ireland and Cooley steps into Singapore as Winston leaves the Middle East
Dentons is to enter one of the few European jurisdictions missing from its sprawling international network by launching an outpost…
Revolving doors: City laterals bounce back with Milbank, Weightmans and Lewis Silkin
City lateral recruitment regained momentum following a slow Christmas holiday break, with Milbank, Weightmans, and Lewis Silkin all making hires in…
Continental growth ‘high on the agenda’: BCLP bolsters Paris outpost with seven-partner splash
Starting the New Year with a bang, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) has recruited a 21-strong team of lawyers in Paris,…
Revolving doors: Ashurst appoints planning co-head as Eversheds bolsters its City commercial practice
In a slower week than usual for City laterals, Ashurst appointed a co-head of its planning team as Eversheds Sutherland…
Goodwin and Eversheds make bold corporate plays amid hopes of increasing City transactional firepower
Goodwin Procter and Eversheds Sutherland both made significant corporate hires in November, with the pair recruiting Kirkland & Ellis partner…
Significant hires
Simmons & Simmons added to its international banking practice with the hire of Kirsty Barnes, formerly Gowling WLG’s head of…
Revolving doors: Fieldfisher appoints new life sciences head as Fried Frank makes double London hires
Fieldfisher has hired Janita Good as its new head of life sciences. She joins from Osborne Clarke where she spent 14…
Freshfields fuels New York M&A growth with four more Cleary lawyers
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has added four more lawyers to its ten-partner Wall Street M&A team, with three counsel and one associate…
Revolving doors: Latham revisits CC for finance hire as DLA recruits BCLP duo in London
Defying the pre-Christmas lull in City laterals, Latham & Watkins last week returned to Clifford Chance to bolster its finance bench…
Revolving doors: Shoosmiths hires first COO as DWF acquires small Australian firm and others look to the continent
City lateral recruitment was quiet last week, with firms instead hiring in Europe as Shoosmiths appointed a chief operating officer (COO)…
Revolving doors: City hires aplenty as Goodwin adds Kirkland PE player and Weil makes restructuring lateral
Leading US firms have continued to ramp up lateral recruitment in London as Goodwin Procter hired a private equity partner from…
Freshfields recruits Linklaters’ alternative legal services head as chief operating officer
Linklaters’ global head of alternative legal services has quit just months into his role to become chief operating officer at…
Revolving doors: Simmons and CMS make City banking and pensions hires as Gibson Dunn bolsters its Paris bench
In another muted patch for City laterals, Simmons & Simmons and CMS were the only firms to hire in London…
Goodwin makes good on Taylor Wessing hires with Cambridge office opening
The expansive Goodwin has leveraged its recent four-strong band of life sciences and technology laterals from Taylor Wessing to open a…
Rolling up the sleeves: Eversheds sets out corporate ambitions with hire of Simmons’ UK corporate head
Eversheds Sutherland is ramping up its City investment plans as the firm looks to become a leading player in the…