Ashurst finance partner Simon Thrower has quit to join Simmons & Simmons’ City practice within days of the announcement that corporate partner Nigel Stacey is leaving for US firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.
Thrower is leaving the top 20 firm after 15 years as a partner, after he joined the firm as a senior associate in 1996. Before this, he was a solicitor at Allen & Overy for eight years.