Commenting on the moves announced on Monday, 5 January, Bloomberg said: 'There was no pattern, and the only certainty is that these are first of what is likely to be a spate of individual, as well as group, lateral moves.' Most of the moves counted by the news agency were in the US - except for the hiring by Greenberg Traurig of three lawyers to start an office in Tokyo. 

Three insolvency lawyers

Other moves include the recruitment of three bankruptcy specialists to Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, a top 100 law firm. White & Case has taken on two tax partners in Los Angeles. Source: Bloomberg