High profile lateral moves between some of the largest global law firms last week saw DLA Piper hire a four-strong real estate team from RPC in London led by Stephen Malley; Chadbourne & Parke strengthen its City project finance team with the hire of Shearman & Sterling partner Julien Bocobza; Dentons bring in Clifford Chance (CC) partner Perry Zizzi to head its banking & finance group in Bucharest; with further international hires for Osborne Clarke, Simmons & Simmons and Winston & Strawn.
In the City, DLA’s hire of non-contentious construction & projects head Stephen Malley and his team is part of the top 10 Global 100 firm’s strategic effort to boost its real estate offering. Property heavyweight Malley is acknowledged as ‘responsive, and an incredible networker’ by The Legal 500.