Strategic recruitment Archives

Revolving doors: Fieldfisher hires from Hogan Lovells as global players make international appointments

Fieldfisher has made a major addition to its London corporate team while DWF, Watson Farley & Williams, O’Melveny & Myers…

‘A stellar team’: Pinsents to open in Perth with Norton Rose Fulbright partners

Marco Cillario

Pinsent Masons is continuing its extensive international expansion of late with a new Australian office and the hire of four…

‘Takes us to a new level’: Hogan Lovells picks up Freshfields investment funds veteran Baird in latest partner exit

Madeleine Farman

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has seen the departure of a member of its corporate team with the exit of investment funds…

Revolving doors: DWF and McGuireWoods hire in London as Jones Day, Hogan Lovells and BonelliErede expand worldwide

Tom Baker

Firms have been busy recruiting in London and abroad, as McGuireWoods and DWF made key London appointments and Jones Day, Hogan Lovells and…

Baker McKenzie brings in three City lawyers from Freshfields, Morrison Foerster and Travers Smith

Madeleine Farman

Baker McKenzie has appointed three new City lawyers, taking on Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer banking partner Geoff O’Dea, Travers Smith finance counsel…

Latham swoops on Quinn Emanuel for high-profile financial regulatory hire Berman

Georgiana Tudor

Latham & Watkins has appointed head of financial services and regulatory David Berman from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan’s London office, returning…

KWM Germany plans to double Chinese-German deals capability by mid-2018 in focus shift

Georgiana Tudor

Asia-headquartered firm King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) has made a strategic commitment to its German practice with the hire of two new partners in…

Labour MP Keir Starmer opts against role advising Mishcon Academy

Tom Baker

Keir Starmer QC, the Labour MP and the party’s Brexit spokesperson, has decided against taking on a role advising the Mishcon…

Revolving doors: Hogan Lovells and Gibson Dunn expand on continent, McGuireWoods appoint to London, Winston to Dubai

Georgiana Tudor

Firms have strengthened their global practices, as Hogan Lovells appointed a key Paris partner, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher recruited in Munich, McGuireWoods…

Linklaters strengthens German private equity arm with former Clifford Chance heavyweight

Georgiana Tudor

Former Clifford Chance(CC) Germany private equity (PE) head, Christopher Kellett, who retired from the firm’s partnership in April, is understood to be joining…

‘Firing on all cylinders’: Freshfields appoints Paul Weiss lawyer to head US IP team

Georgiana Tudor

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringerhas appointed Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrisonlawyer Menachem Kaplan (pictured) as its first partner to head up the…

‘GCs are becoming much more discerning’: CPS special crime head Vamos to join Peters & Peters

Georgiana Tudor

Disputes and business crime boutique Peters & Peters has today (19 July) announced that the former head of special crime at the…

Matrix Chambers CEO Lindsay Scott to head up 39 Essex Chambers later this year

Georgiana Tudor

Long-serving Matrix Chambers CEO Lindsay Scott (pictured) is to join 39 Essex Chambers as its new chief executive officer, later…

Revolving doors: CC partner seconded to Takeover Panel, 2Birds, PwC and Farrer hire in London, while K&E adds to Germany

Marco Cillario

Law firms are strengthening their European practices, with Bird & Bird, PwC and Farrer & Co all hiring in London,…

‘A new challenge’: Freshfields antitrust veteran Jon Lawrence to leave for Brick Court

Tom Baker

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer competition litigation head Jon Lawrence is to leave the firm to pursue a career as a barrister at…

Gibson Dunn continues lateral hiring spree with hire of A&O arbitration partner Jeffrey Sullivan

Madeleine Farman

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher has added to its growing European offering with the appointment of London-based arbitration partner Jeffrey Sullivan…

Revolving doors: Simmons appoints CC capital markets veteran as firms boost London ranks

Legal Business

The arrival of July marked a heightened pace of lateral hires by UK firms boosting their London bases. Simmons &…

Revolving doors: Jury O’Shea expands in London, Simmons in Frankfurt, HSF hires in Dubai

Georgiana Tudor

With a broad set of hires towards the end of June, Jury O’Shea hired a former Stewarts commercial litigation partner, Simmons…

Revolving doors: Squire Patton Boggs and Addleshaws hire in Leeds, Taylor Wessing in France, Goodwin in Boston

Georgiana Tudor

A steady pace of lateral hires continued into the second half of 2017, with Squire Patton Boggs and Addleshaw Goddard…

CC, Hogan Lovells and Bird & Bird all strengthen European antitrust practices

Legal Business

Clifford Chance (CC), Hogan Lovells and Bird & Bird have all bolstered their European antitrust practices with key appointments.