Law Firm Lateral Hires

Bowmans absorbs eight-partner A&O Shearman team in Johannesburg

Group including all of A&O Shearman’s Johannesburg partners exits ahead of office closure

TLT adds eight-partner team from BDB Pitmans

Infrastructure-focused team joins in London

O’Melveny adds senior private equity duo in London from Ashurst

Ashurst’s PE co-chair David Carter and UK/European PE head Braeden Donnelly join US firm

Squire Patton Boggs, McDermott add corporate and M&A partners in London

Former Goodwin counsel Ben Morgan joins SPB, while Sebastien Bonneau joins McDermott from Eversheds

Hogan Lovells bolsters capital markets practice with double partner hire from Linklaters

Íñigo Berrícano joins in Madrid and Alex Parkhouse joins in London

Boies Schiller Flexner makes twin partner hire in New York and Washington

Peter Skinner returns from MoFo to co-lead investigations practice, while Andrew Smith joins from Holland & Knight

Clifford Chance adds top flight restructuring partner in Munich

Kolja von Bismarck reunites with two other ex-Sidley Austin restructuring partners that joined CC in Germany in June

Gibson Dunn hires Google’s chief privacy officer to expand AI practice

Keith Enright joins a growing group of former Silicon Valley executives at US firm

Greenberg Traurig adds arbitration partner trio in London from Pinsent Masons

Pinsents' former international arbitration co-head Jason Hambury joins with Gurmukh Riyat and Clea Bigelow-Nuttall

Squire Patton Boggs hires former Trump defence secretary

Mark Esper joins in Washington DC to advise on national security, domestic and foreign policy

Weil private funds buildout continues with Goodwin partner hire

Karen Chao is the fourth private funds partner to join Weil since late 2023

Addleshaw Goddard adds highly regarded IP team from Stobbs

Five-strong team led by Geoff Steward has represented many leading brands in the retail sector

Cadwalader global litigation co-chair joins Vinson & Elkins in New York

Jason Halper joins alongside newly-minted partner Sara Brauerman

Baker McKenzie's Korea JV law firm recruits team to launch tax practice

Principal John Kwak joins from Korea Big Six firm Kim & Chang with two more tax specialists

A&O Shearman adds leveraged finance partner in Paris from Latham

Michel Houdayer latest in string of defections from Latham's Europe offices

Loeb & Loeb hires 17 from Perkins Coie in Beijing

Partners James Zimmerman and Scott Palmer take team to Loeb ahead of Perkins’ Beijing closure

Latham adds senior tax partner in London from Travers Smith

Simon Skinner joins having earlier led Travers’ tax team

Cooley boosts London ECVC bench with triple partner hire from US rivals

Taylor Wessing’s ECVC head joins alongside partners from White & Case and Goodwin Procter

Weil recruits ex-Goldman Sachs lawyer for London finance team

Nicola Noël joins US firm as a partner from Canadian pension investor PSP Investments

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