City firm RPC has hired former Worldpay corporate general counsel Matthew Griffith as a partner in its corporate insurance and financial services team, in a bid to ‘sharpen client focus’ in the sector.
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Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan took on some of Wall Street’s finest firms including Sullivan & Cromwell and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, as a dozen major banks, data provider Markit and International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) were accused by investors of rigging the credit derivatives market in a case which resulted in a $1.87bn settlement.
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Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer global head of Islamic finance Tarek El-Assra has quit the firm to join Morgan, Lewis & Bockius as a partner, as the Morgan Lewis targets the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia
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The UK’s regional hubs saw a spree of hiring as TLT strengthened its corporate practice in Manchester after a law firm’s collapse and Squire Patton Boggs bulked up in Leeds. Meanwhile, Ashurst enlarged its finance practice in Europe with the addition of two new partners and Fladgate recruited an employment partner.
Reversing the flow of partners from the Magic Circle to US firms, Allen & Overy has made a rare lateral hire in London and recruited structured finance lawyer Lucy Oddy from Latham & Watkins.
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Having lost a string of London-based corporate stars in the last two years, Ashurst is making efforts to enhance its offering once more with the hire of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom’s former global private equity co-head Shaun Lascelles.
Students of the relationship between business and society will, of late, have encountered a new discourse, that around corporate welfare.
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Morgan, Lewis & Bockius has recruited two further partners from K&L Gates, adding to the three already to have made the move in July, as the US firm builds its City securitisation offering.
Weil, Gotshal & Manges‘ structured finance practice in the City has been hit by the departure of two lawyers with partner Rupert Wall heading to Sidley Austin and senior associate Chris McGarry making partner at Ropes & Gray.
In a fillip for the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), the first person to go on trial after a global investigation into interest rate manipulation scandal, Tom Hayes, has been found guilty at Southwark Crown Court and convicted on eight counts of conspiracy to defraud.
