Law Firm Lateral Hires
White & Case adds Travers’ tech and commercial transactions head in London
Dan Reavill’s exit follows Travers commercial and IP partner Ben Chivers leaving for Temple Bright earlier this month
Simmons bags DLA Piper’s UK competition head
Sarah Smith joins as head of Simmons’ UK competition and antitrust team following predecessor’s exit for Kirkland last year
Jones Day signs up former lord chancellor Alex Chalk as a partner in London
Chalk follows footsteps of ex-lord chancellor Lord Falconer and former attorney general Lord Goldsmith in joining a top US law firm
Sidley recruits M&A partners in New York from Jones Day, Simpson Thacher
David Grubman joins from Jones Day to co-lead Sidley’s global M&A practice as Adam Cromie moves over from Simpson Thacher
Clifford Chance taps Skadden for private capital heavyweight Embley in London
Bruce Embley co-headed Freshfields’ global M&A practice before joining Skadden in 2020
Quinn Emanuel’s Brussels managing partner departs for Geradin Partners
Trevor Soames is the second competition partner to leave QE’s Brussels office in recent weeks
Jenner launches London public law practice with senior Baker McKenzie hire
Joanna Ludlam joins having co-led Bakers’ global investigations practice
Clyde & Co hires in London and Hamburg from Wikborg Rein and WFW
Hamburg office boosted by team move as oil and gas sector projects specialist joins in London
Skadden debuts in Middle East with senior Freshfields hire
New York firm taps corporate heavyweight Michael Hilton to lead Abu Dhabi launch
MoFo recruits senior private equity M&A partner in Singapore from Gibson Dunn
Scott Jalowayski replenishes MoFo’s Asia corporate bench following defections to CMS and Baker McKenzie
Osborne Clarke strengthens IP and disputes team with trio of new partners
Joiners arrive from Hausfeld, Pinsent Masons and Gowling WLG
Kinstellar launches in Austria with Wolf Theiss partner hire
Experienced M&A lawyer Horst Ebhardt will lead the new Vienna office
Morgan Lewis boosts German bench with Baker McKenzie partner hire
Patent litigator Alexander Ritter marks latest in string of European hires by the US firm
Norton Rose Fulbright makes double hire from Locke Lord and Dechert in London
Kirsty Harrower and Jamal Tuhin join as partners in the real estate and private equity teams, respectively
London’s New Law Media hires veteran litigation partner from Stephenson Harwood
Michael Bywell joins West End boutique after two years at Stephenson Harwood
Dechert, Garrigues disputes partners exit to become independent arbitrators
Arif Hyder Ali and Joe Tirado are the latest arbitration partners to swap ‘Big Law’ for boutique life
Morgan Lewis to absorb 54-lawyer Kramer Levin Paris team
Split comes ahead of Kramer Levin’s planned merger with Herbert Smith Freehills
Simpson Thacher hits Sidley for leveraged finance partner duo in London
US firm also recruited a leveraged finance partner from Linklaters last month
Sidley Austin unveils eighth partner raid on Latham in London this year
Latham’s London finance co-chair Tania Bedi latest to swell Sidley’s ranks
DAC Beachcroft hires team of 30 for US debut
Group including four partners to open offices in New York and Los Angeles at start of next year
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