Cahill Gordon & Reindel has added a new partner to its ranks in London, following a number of exits from its finance practice over the year. Cahill has hired Andrew Kelly as a partner, a former Clifford Chance member. He joins its banking and capital markets practice, working on high yield matters, acquisition financings, recapitalisations […]
A managing director and deputy general counsel at HSBC has left the bank after over 10 years to join Citigroup UK. The new Citi recruit is Philip Jockelson, who was head of corporate and structuring legal for almost five years at HSBC. Prior to that he was interim company secretary for 10 months, and associate […]
Latham & Watkins has lost another member of its Continental European transactional team, with a leveraged finance partner joining A&O Shearman in Paris. Michel Houdayer has made the move to A&O Shearman today (16 September). He was a Latham lifer, having joined the firm in 2002 and spent almost a decade in the partnership having […]
Ashurst has announced the hire of EY’s Fiona Ghosh as the latest recruit to its digital economy team in London. She moves from EY where she has been a partner and UK law leader for fintech and payments. Having held roles as head of fintech for AG and head of payments for Eversheds, she brings […]
Flint Bishop has acquired Walker Morris’s 34-strong volume banking and finance recoveries division to launch in Leeds. As part of the transfer, director Justin Coley will continue in the role of head of recoveries, while Rebecca Calland and Ellen McLean have been promoted to the position of partner. Other key figures joining from Walker Morris […]
A team of 13 have switched to King & Spalding from Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft, after it emerged that four partners would be leading the team move back in June. At the start of the summer, Cadwalader fund finance partners Samantha Hutchinson, Nathan Parker and Mathan Navaratnam, as well as ESG partner Sukhvir Basran, lined […]
Linklaters has made its first lateral hire in Sweden for two years, recruiting a new head of its banking and finance practice from White & Case. Magnus Wennerhorn joins the magic circle firm having previously been co-head of White & Case’s debt finance practice in the Swedish capital. Wennerhorn spent almost two decades at his […]
Five leveraged finance partners from Latham & Watkins in London have exited the firm for Sidley Austin, following a finance team move to Milbank reported earlier this morning. Partners Jayanthi Sadanandan and Sam Hamilton are leading the team move after having spent nearly 15 years at Latham, as first reported in Financial News. The pair […]
A finance team from Latham & Watkins’ London office is exiting the firm to join Milbank’s alternative investments practice. Partner Alex Martin makes the move just three years after joining Latham, prior to which he had been a partner at Weil Gotshal & Manges between 2012 and 2021. He started his career at legacy Allen […]
Another partner from Weil Gotshal & Manges’ London office is set to join Paul Hastings, following on from the move of Reena Gogna in June. Brian Maher is making the move from Weil Gotshal to Paul Hastings. He has been a partner at Weil Gotshal since 2014 when he was promoted at the firm. He […]
Proskauer Rose, which boosted its finance ranks with two Allen & Overy hires this summer, is preparing for its move into bigger digs in London. The firm, which is presently based at 110 Bishopsgate, is switching offices later this year to 8 Bishopsgate. Here, it will take up around 60,000 sq ft of space in […]
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group’s EMEA legal team has launched a trainee solicitor scheme in partnership with Flex Legal. Five new graduates have been hired into the team, with four based in London and one in Dubai. Two of the recruits will join as apprentices. The bank will offer these trainees the opportunity to qualify as […]