HSF Kramer has hired a trio of M&A partners in New York from Paul Hastings.
The group includes Robert Leung, who will serve as the firm’s head of energy, mining and infrastructure for the Americas, alongside Mike Huang and Daniel Grossman. Jason Hill has also joined the group as counsel.
The team’s experience spans inbound and outbound M&A, joint ventures and financings for clients including Caithness Energy, Glenfarne Group, Intercorp, Javelin Global Commodities, Nexus Group and SiriusPoint. They have spent the past nine years at Paul Hastings, having joined the firm together from Bois Schiller Flexner.
Paul Schoeman, HSF Kramer’s executive partner for the US, said the trio “have the background and skill sets vital for growth to enhance our M&A platform, especially in the rapidly changing energy, infrastructure and mining sectors”.
He added their hire “underscores the commitment HSF Kramer has to attracting top-level talent in key markets”.
Leung, who made partner at Boies Schiller in 2002, advises on domestic and cross-border M&A, as well as private equity and financing transactions. He was a mainstay of Paul Hastings’ Latin America practice, which he previously co-led in New York with energy and infrastructure partner Gregory Tan alongside M&A partner Jonathan Kellner in São Paulo.
Last year he and Huang, who has also been a partner for more than 20 years and similarly focuses on deals involving Latin America, advised Glenfarne on its $865m acquisition of a portfolio of solar and battery energy storage system assets in Chile from Metlen Energy & Metals.
Meanwhile Grossman made partner four years ago at Paul Hastings. Alongside M&A he focuses on securities law, venture capital and growth equity investments, as well as investment advisory matters involving hedge funds and private equity funds.
Justin D’Agostino, global CEO of HSF Kramer, said the team’s hire came in response to clients navigating increasingly complex transactions in the US and globally.
“Team hires are always exciting,” D’Agostino said. “Adding this level of strategic M&A talent strengthens our US platform and underscores our commitment to long-term investment and sustained growth in the region.”
Growing in New York and its broader transactional offering were cited as a key priorities for HSF Kramer when the merger that formed it went live at the start of last June, creating a 2,700-lawyer firm with global revenue of more than $2bn. To support that, the firm hired Burr Eckstut in New York last September from White & Case as head of US tech transactions.
Sine the merger restructuring partners Kyle Ortiz and Brian Shaughnessy also joined in New York from boutique Togut Segal & Segal, and former senior Department of Justice lawyer John Elias and Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider partner David Pearl came aboard in Washington DC to develop its US antitrust offering.
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