DLA asset finance partners join Pillsbury

March, 06 2014

A team of five lawyers is leaving the DLA Piper asset finance group to joint Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman in London at the start of May.

Partners from the DLA Piper asset finance group are moving to Pillsbury. Dafinka

Partners Debra Erni and Graham Tyler, who headed the DLA asset finance team, are making the move along with three associates. They will be joining the Pillsbury transportation team. Mark Lessard, New York-based co-leader of the Pillsbury transportation finance group, said: ‘Our clients have been asking us to put a team into London for some time.’ Ms Erni has particular strengths in Japan and aviation. Source: Bloomberg Law