Ashurst has lost former managing partner James Collis to Squire Patton Boggs. Collis succeeded Ashurst litigation managing partner Simon Bromwich in May 2012, before becoming inaugural managing partner following the firm’s merger with Australia’s Blake Dawson until stepping down in June 2016. However, Ashurst recently grew its project finance team with the hire of Adrian Lawrence, who joins from White & Case.
Norton Rose Fulbright has lost ten lawyers to insurance and shipping specialist Kennedys. This includes insurance and marine disputes partners Patrick Foss and Chris Zavos, who joined the firm from Barlow Lyde & Gilbert after its merger with Clyde & Co in 2011.
Dechert has made multiple hires in London from US rival Sidley Austin. John McGrath and Aparna Sehgal join the global finance practice as structured finance and real estate finance partners respectively – the firm’s third and fourth in the last nine months – while Simon Fawell joins the litigation practice.
In the Netherlands, Eversheds Sutherland has hired corporate partner Jeroen Hoekstra and commercial partner Benjamin van Kessel from Nineyards Law as well as Elmer Veenman from Amsterdam leader De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek. Hoekstra was previously co-head of the corporate M&A group at Baker McKenzie and is a founding partner of Nineyards, established in 2015.
In Poland, CMS boosted its energy and infrastructure projects practice with Lukasz Szatkowski from Weil, Gotshal & Manges. With more than 15 years’ experience, Szatkowski has worked in transaction, projects and regulatory advice for international and Polish energy companies.
Dentons has hired data privacy and cyber security partner Antonis Patrikios from Fieldfisher. He is experienced in the telecoms, media and technology sectors, acting for major multinational brands, leading data businesses, growth companies and public sector entities.