Law Firm Lateral Hires - Page 4
Charles Russell Speechlys adds Stephenson Harwood private client team in Asia push
UK firm says addition of five-strong Hong Kong team creates region’s largest private client practice
Dentons hires Baker McKenzie team to launch Hong Kong IP practice
Incoming group includes veteran IP trio Loke-Khoon Tan, Maria Joannides Smith and Dominic Edmondson
Kirkland recruits antitrust partner quartet from Cleary across Brussels and London
Top-ranked EU competition lawyer Robbert Snelders among those moving over
Akin adds four-partner private equity team in New York and London from Sidley
Incoming group includes returnees Gerald Brant, Jeffrey Kochian and Brittany Harrison
Haynes Boone makes double fund finance and arbitration partner hire in London
Jeremy Cross joins from Addleshaw Goddard, while Philipp Kurek joins from Signature Litigation
Barnes & Thornburg adds entertainment trio from Nixon Peabody
Christina Chang and Carron Joan Mitchell join Barnes in Los Angeles and Farrah Usmani joins its Nashville location
Kennedys strengthens in London with double partner hire from DLA Piper and Cripps
Will White and Lowri Jones arrive a week after the firm’s 20-strong partner promotions round
Cooley launches energy, infrastructure and real estate group with Baker Botts energy co-chair
Mona Dajani joins in New York to lead practice alongside Cooley veteran Michelle Schulman
MoFo builds in London with tech transactions trio from Morgan Lewis, Baker McKenzie
Hires mean MoFo has added 10 lawyers to its partnership in London over the past year
RPC elevates 10 to partner in one of its largest promotion rounds on record
Partner promotions include just two women, although three out of four new counsel are female
Arnold & Porter hires former Wilkie EU antitrust partner in London
New recruit Nicola Chesaites was most recently a freelance barrister after leaving Wilkie in May 2025
McDermott boosts Italian presence with five-partner team hire in Milan
Incoming group, led by Vincenzo Giannantonio, joins from Italian independent Gitti & Partners
Pillsbury debuts in Boston with Latham litigation hire
Robert Gilbert joins to launch office targeting tech, health and banking clients alongside four senior Pillsbury attorneys
Greenberg Traurig boosts London corporate bench with Baker McKenzie partner
Robert Gray joins after nearly 18 years at Bakers; adds heft in deals work in the Nordics and CEE
Dentons adds seven-lawyer disputes team from PwC Legal in Germany
Group joins in Berlin just a week after three corporate partners left Dentons’ Munich office for Reed Smith