DLA Piper has added a quartet of partners across London and Luxembourg to boost its corporate, finance and tax practices.
Three of the new arrivals are based in London: private equity and M&A lawyer Markjan van Schaardenburgh, finance specialist Mark Brown and Gareth Amdor, who has joined DLA Piper’s tax practice. In Luxembourg, the firm has hired financial services regulatory specialist Cathrine Foldberg Møller.
Sandra Wallace CBE, DLA Piper’s deputy managing partner and managing director, international practice groups, said the new hires would boost the firm’s offering in areas critical to its clients.
“We are delivering on our strategic growth strategy and along with new hires, there are several more exciting additions in the pipeline,” she added.
Van Schaardenburgh has joined the firm after five years as a partner at Ashurst, before which he practised as a counsel at Linklaters. Dual‑qualified in England and Wales and South Africa, he advises companies across Europe and Africa on M&A, downstream private equity, private capital transactions, corporate restructurings and governance mandates.
Meanwhile, Brown advises on structured products, derivatives, securities lending, regulatory advisory work and bank reorganisation projects, including M&A and ESG policy development. He most recently worked at the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority as a policy technical specialist, before which he practised for 25 years at Linklaters.
Amdor previously led the restructuring and expansion of Reed Smith’s UK tax practice and brings more than 28 years of UK taxation experience. In particular, he has expertise in private equity, advising across funds, real estate, cross‑border M&A, corporate finance, restructuring, venture capital and hedge fund structuring. He will lead DLA Piper’s UK Transaction Tax practice.
Foldberg Møller brings a pan‑European financial services regulatory practice and joins from Simmons & Simmons, where she has been a partner since 2021. She advises financial institutions, insurers and fintechs on banking and payments, investment activities, product regulation and financial promotion.
The incoming partners continue a hiring spree by DLA Piper focused on private capital, finance and private equity.
The hires come just days after the firm said it had added a trio of partners from Akin to launch a global capital solutions practice, with Ranesh Ramanathan and Alex Cushman coming aboard in New York and Daniel Wayte moving over in London.
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