Sullivan & Cromwell (S&C) has hired finance partner Jenny Choi from Weil in London, as the New York firm continues its rapid City buildout around private capital.
Choi advises equity sponsors, corporate borrowers, financial institutions and direct lenders on financings across the capital structure. She made partner at Weil at the start of last year having joined the firm in 2022 and has worked with clients including Inflexion, Permira and Bain Capital.
The move will reunite Choi with finance partners Chris McLaughlin and Alastair McVeigh, who joined from Weil in January as part of a recruitment drive that has seen S&C add nine lateral partners in London since it began in earnest last autumn with the hire of Weil’s former London managing partner, Mike Francies, and ex-Kirkland & Ellis partner Kon Asimacopoulos.
The London office, which Asimacopoulos leads as co-managing partner alongside John Horsfield-Bradbury, now boasts 93 lawyers according to the firm’s website – its second-largest globally and around 30 more than New York rival Davis Polk.
Asimacopoulos and Horsfield-Bradbury said Choi’s hire built on the recent additions of McLaughlin, McVeigh and high yield partner Patrick Bright, who joined in London earlier this month from Paul Hastings alongside restructuring partner William Needham. Last December the firm also hired private equity and M&A partner Aprajita Dhundia and transactional tax partner Ian Ferreira from Kirkland.
They added: “Together with our continued investment in acquisition finance, private equity, specialty lending and restructuring, [Choi’s] arrival enhances our London team’s ability to advise on the market’s most complex financing transactions.”
The London hires come at a more broadly expansive time for S&C, which, according to reports by Bloomberg Law and Law.com, hired a junior Kirkland partner early this year ahead of launching an office in Houston, its first in Texas.
In December, the firm also launched a new digital infrastructure practice group focused on areas including energy project development, GPU and system financing, hyperscale data centre development and leasing agreements.
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