Weil Gotshal & Manges has hired a new partner for its funds group, who previously held roles at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Kirkland & Ellis. Sophie Smith joins Weil as a partner, having been at Cleary for nearly three years as a counsel. Prior to Cleary, she worked at Kirkland for five years, […]
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 […]
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison is continuing to expand in investment funds, with the addition of another partner from Kirkland & Ellis. David Pritchett joins from Kirkland after 10 years at the firm. Pritchett trained at Kirkland, qualifying into the private funds team in 2016 before being promoted to partner two years ago in […]
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison has secured another partner hire from Kirkland & Ellis to build out its City funds practice further. Jeremy Leggate joins from Kirkland as a partner and will co-head the firm’s European investment funds team. He spent just over nine years at the firm, originally joining as an associate before […]
White & Case has continued its expansion of its investment funds practice in the UK, with another hire from Ropes & Gray. Alexandra Chauvin joins White & Case as a partner in its investment funds practice and global private equity industry group from Ropes where she spent just over two years. Chauvin specialises in secondaries […]
King & Spalding has raided US rival Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft for a four-strong partner team in London. Four partners are making the move, alongside one special counsel who will join as partner. On the funds finance side, partners Samantha Hutchinson, Mathan Navaratnam, Nathan Parker and special counsel James Hoggett will join. Partner Sukhvir Basran […]
Travers Smith, which last year lost a number of members in its funds group, has hired a new partner from Blackstone’s in-house legal team. Joel Grossmark joins Travers’ funds practice to add to its retailisation expertise. Grossmark previously worked at Blackstone Credit and Insurance, where he led its legal function for over five years. He […]
Goodwin Procter has given its Luxembourg office the early moving-in present of a new partner, hiring European 100 firm AKD’s co-head of investment funds. The US firm is bringing in Virginie Leroy to strengthen its European funds practice. Leroy spent more than four years at AKD, having joined from Canadian firm DSL in March 2020. […]
Debevoise & Plimpton is hiring from Goodwin Procter as it adds a new partner to its London investment funds team. Shawn D’Aguiar is switching to a new US firm in London eight years after joining Goodwin from King & Wood Mallesons (KWM). He was part of a four-partner team move led by then funds head Michael […]
We’ve just launched Partnerless, a new email specifically for associates. Sign up here for weekly career intelligence and market chatter. A dedicated secondaries team from Debevoise & Plimpton is moving across to Skadden to join its investment management group in London. Counsel Delphine Jaugey leads the team and will join as head of secondaries for Europe. […]
Kirkland & Ellis is expanding its funds team in London, by hiring a former partner of Macfarlanes. Alex Amos joins Kirkland, having resigned from Macfarlanes’ partnership at the start of 2023. Since then he has acted as a senior adviser at the firm. He was promoted to partnership in 2012. Kirkland chairman Jon Ballis said: […]
Funds-focused Euro 100 firm Arendt & Medernach has opened its first German office with the firm seeking to make in-roads into Frankfurt’s myriad financial institutions as well as the European Central Bank. The firm announced it would be opening in the German financial centre, though its new office will not offer German law capabilities. Instead […]