Brown Rudnick hires Speechly’s European IP head into equivalent City role Legal Business Brown Rudnick has hired technology and intellectual property (IP) head Alex Carter-Silk from Speechly Bircham to lead its European IP practice…
Herbert Smith Freehills boosts US investigations with hire of former assistant attorney and SEC chief John O’Donnell Legal Business Herbert Smith Freehills’ (HSF’s) Manhattan office has capitalised on the US revolving door with the hire of John O’Donnell, a former…
Olswang’s head of real estate finance quits for Dechert Legal Business Olswang’s head of real estate finance Eleni Skordaki has quit the firm after nearly ten years to join Dechert’s City finance…
Norton Rose Fulbright hires CMS Cameron McKenna DCM partner Legal Business Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF) has hired CMS Cameron McKenna banking and finance partner Nigel Dickinson to its debt capital markets team.
Squire Patton Boggs brings in former Dundas partner to head UK real estate litigation team Legal Business Squire Patton Boggs has made its first UK partner hire since the May announcement that Squire Sanders would unite with…
Comment: Partner recruitment – better but still a case of buyer beware Legal Business If the oxymoronic notion of partner recruitment didn’t exist who would invent it? On one level, of course, its emergence…
Greenberg Traurig hires Dentons London-based co-head of global real estate Legal Business Greenberg Traurig has hired Dentons London-based co-head of global real estate Eric Rosedale as its co-chair of international real estate.
Edwards Wildman faces five-strong London partner revolt following string of City exits Legal Business Edwards Wildman is in talks with five disgruntled London partners following a string of exits from the top 100 US…
Latham goes green with latest City hire of Macfarlanes environmentalist Paul Davies Legal Business In the latest of a series of heavyweight City hires, Latham & Watkins is to bring in Macfarlanes’ environmental specialist Paul…
Ashurst finance partner Simon Thrower latest to leave with move to Simmons Jaishree Kalia Ashurst finance partner Simon Thrower has quit to join Simmons & Simmons’ City practice within days of the announcement that corporate…
Ashurst corporate partner Nigel Stacey quits for Gibson Dunn’s City office Jaishree Kalia Ashurst’s corporate partner Nigel Stacey has quit the firm to join the London office of Los Angeles-founded firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.…
Revolving Doors: HSF’s Rosen QC returns to the Bar; laterals for Weil Gotshal; Simmons; Rosenblatt and Payne Hicks Legal Business The latest standout lateral moves have seen Herbert Smith Freehills’ (HSF) former advocacy chief Murray Rosen QC return to the Bar,…
Partner recruitment: buyer beware Legal Business If the oxymoronic notion of partner recruitment didn’t exist who would invent it? On one level, of course, its emergence…
Weil’s City banking head Stephen Lucas joins Kirkland Legal Business One of the best-known names in the leverage buyout market, Stephen Lucas, is set to join Kirkland & Ellis from…
Strategic Recruitment: The Product Jaishree Kalia The debate over the value of partner recruitment has intensified in recent years. Legal Business analyses hiring trends at top…
Strategic Recruitment: What Lies Beneath Legal Business More law firms are formally vetting potential senior recruits. Legal Business investigates the growth – and controversies – of partner…
18 months’ notice commuted to eight – Field Fisher’s Eduardo Ustaran joins Hogan Lovells Sarah Downey Field Fisher’s high profile former head of privacy Eduardo Ustaran joins Hogan Lovells today (4 June), almost a year before the…
EY hires Freshfields’ Richard Norbruis to head global transaction group Legal Business EY has made its third senior private practice hire in three months months with the announcement that Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer partner…
International expansion: openings for Charles Russell in Saudi; Eversheds in Durban; Osborne Clarke in Amsterdam Sarah Downey A trio of UK firms have this week expanded their international office base as Charles Russell agrees a formal association with…
Further hire for Thirty Nine Essex with arrival of Ince & Co litigation partner Legal Business After three decades in private practice longstanding Ince & Co litigation partner Denys Hickey has re-joined the Bar with a…
