King & Spalding has hired Latham & Watkins’ former European vice chair of tax Daniel Friel, the latest in a number of strategic hires over the last 12 months as it looks to grow its London offering.
An opportunity to ‘build something’: KWM’s City litigation head Alex Leitch leaves for Covington
US firm Covington & Burling has bolstered its European disputes capabilities with the hire of King & Wood Mallesons London head of litigation, Alex Leitch (pictured), to its City office, as its plans to bulk up the practice this year.
Linklaters suffers blow as US firms hire trio of leading partners
Linklaters lost a trio of heavyweight partners in February with Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy and Kirkland & Ellis cherry-picking from the Magic Circle firm.
Milbank built out its projects practice with the hire of two leading projects partners from Linklaters’ London office, Matthew Hagopian and Manzer Ijaz, who count among their clients Glencore, BP and Eni.
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Mass hires: Pillsbury sees partners start to move to Winston & Strawn across three offices
Up to 15 lawyers are set to quit from US firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman for Winston & Strawn, with the firm’s Abu Dhabi managing partner Stephen Jurgenson, London-based co-head of energy, infrastructure and projects James Simpson and New York-based structured products chief Jeffrey Stern having already resigned from the firm.
Investing in London: Cooley keeps up City push with Olswang’s former PE head Rosen
Revolving doors: Paul Hastings takes three Americas partners from Allen & Overy
Paul Hastings has made a rare move on a UK firm in its own backyard, with news that is to hire a trio of US and Latin America-based partners from Allen & Overy.
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Lateral hire: Pinsents lures Addleshaws financial regulation head
Pinsent Masons has today (3 March) announced the hire of respected Addleshaw Goddard financial regulation head David Heffron.
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Hogan Lovells hires Bingham finance partner in New York and Mayer Brown trio in China
Having sought to upgrade its finance practice in New York since the 2010 union of Lovells and Hogan & Hartson, Hogan Lovells has made a senior hire to its Manhattan arm with the addition of Ronald Silverman from Bingham McCutchen.
Spring hires: KWM and A&O bolster core City teams with notable recruits
International heavyweights King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) and Allen & Overy (A&O) have ushered in spring by today (2 March) unveiling notable new recruits to their London operations from Global 100 rivals.
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Revolving doors: DWF, CMS, BLP and Mayer Brown make key hires
DWF, CMS Cameron McKenna, Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP), and Mayer Brown have all made strategic hires in the last week, bolstering key practice areas in London, Scotland and New York.
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