Mayer Brown has recruited a corporate and securities partner from Dechert, just a day after DLA Piper announced the addition of a Dechert restructuring partner to its team. Ross Montgomery makes the move after nearly 12 years at Dechert. He joined the firm as an associate in 2013 and was made partner in 2021 alongside […]
DLA Piper has added to its London restructuring practice with the hire of a Dechert partner. Adam Plainer makes the move in January, having also held partner roles at Jones Day and Weil Gotshal & Manges. Plainer joins DLA Piper after three years at Dechert. Recruited in 2021 to support Dechert’s global restructuring expansion, Plainer […]
Davis Polk & Wardwell is continuing its expansive streak in London by two restructuring partners from Sidley Austin. Jifree Cader and Mark Knight are leaving Sidley to spearhead Davis Polk’s London restructuring team. Cader trained at Addleshaw Goddard before becoming a partner at Kirkland & Ellis. He joined Sidley Austin in 2016 and went on […]
Bird & Bird is deepening its ties to public sector clients and UK Government by hiring a specialist lawyer from Clifford Chance. Andrew Dean is joining Bird & Bird’s commercial practice in London as a partner. He has spent six years at Clifford Chance, most recently as head of procurement and public law. Before going […]
Weeks after losing partners from its pensions and tax practices, Travers Smith is set for a further departure as its incentives head moves to Allen & Overy Shearman. Mahesh Varia, the head of Travers’ incentives and remuneration team, is making the move. Varia served on Travers’ partnership board and has been with the firm for over […]
Pinsent Masons has hired the head of Burness Paull’s governance and company secretarial (CoSec) team, Gary Gray. Gray is the second senior hire for the firm’s contract lawyer practice, Vario, coming six months after it was joined by Rich Manley, who previously led EY Riverview Law. As legal director of the CoSec division, Gray will […]
Dentons’ Warsaw office has hired two CMS lawyers to strengthen its energy group after the firm lost seven lawyers in the city to Greenberg Traurig. Partner Piotr Ciołkowski will be Dentons’ new co-head of the energy sector group. He has two decades of experience advising clients in the energy sector, particularly on regulatory and investment […]
Disputes boutique Seladore Legal is to open in Singapore with a hire from Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF), marking its ninth hire from the firm. HSF New York senior associate Liang-Ying Tan will join as a partner to launch the Singapore office. The firm is in the process of applying for its Foreign Law Practice Licence. […]
Freshfields has hired three lawyers from Weil Gotshal & Manges’ London office, in a move that connects its recent private capital hires in New York to the City. Weil partner Paul Stewart is moving across as Freshfields’s new global co-head of private credit and capital solutions. He will serve in this role alongside New York-based […]
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has hired its new head of intellectual property and technology transactions from Latham & Watkins. Deborah Kirk, who trained at Linklaters before becoming head of transactional intellectual property in Latham’s London office, will lead on Skadden’s technological IP matters. Skadden executive partner Jeremy London said: “Deborah joins the firm […]
Browne Jacobson has appointed its first ever general counsel, bringing in the head of legal and enforcement at the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to fill the role. Oliver Sweeney started his career at Browne Jacobson, working there between 2004 and 2014, before eventually heading in-house. He was head of legal, then GC, at the Gambling […]
Ropes & Gray has made its first hires for its nascent Paris office, hiring a private capital-focused team from Clifford Chance. Fabrice Cohen, Emmanuel Mimin and Thierry Arachtingi are set to make the move over to the US firm when it finally opens its doors in the French capital. Rumours of Ropes opening a Paris […]
Gowling WLG has recruited Ashurst real estate partner Nicolas Deuerling to join its 40-strong Frankfurt office, which opened in May last year. Deuerling was a longstanding Ashurst partner, and specialises in advising national and international clients on complex real estate transactions, along with property finance and project development. He is leaving Ashurst together with his […]
Greenberg Traurig is launching a new practice in Poland with the hire of seven Dentons lawyers, The Lawyer can reveal. Leading the project and structured finance group in Warsaw will be partner Piotr Nerwiński, former co-head of the banking and finance team at Dentons, where he spent over a decade. He specialises in project and […]
