Law Firm Practice Launch

Pinsent Masons hires first financial regulatory consulting head from Eversheds

Ian Stott joins with team in London having built the financial regulatory consulting practice at Konexo, Eversheds’ legal services delivery arm

  • 3w

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

  • 3mos

Simpson Thacher hires Kirkland partner to head up new capital structure solutions practice

David Nemecek brings vast distressed situations experience; firm plans Dallas opening as part of the new practice launch

  • 6mos

Eversheds relaunches in Ireland with integrated 26-partner practice

New set-up will be part of Eversheds’ International LLP and follows breakdown of affiliated Irish arm’s merger talks with William Fry

  • 11mos

Honigman adds Big Law quartet in Israel, launches investment funds practice

Joiners arrive from Paul Weiss, Simpson Thacher and Pillsbury

  • 1yr

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

  • 1yr

White & Case launches Tokyo disputes practice with Orrick partner hire

Shinsuke Yakura joins having led Orrick’s Tokyo office

  • 1yr

Sullivan & Cromwell eyes artificial intelligence growth with new practice launch

New AI practice will be co-led by partners Nader Mousavi, Mehdi Ansari and Presley Warner

  • 2yrs

Paul Weiss launches Latin America practice with corporate hire from Willkie Farr

M&A partner Maria-Leticia Ossa Daza joins in New York having founded and led Willkie’s LatAm practice

  • 2yrs

Herbert Smith Freehills launches global digital legal delivery practice

Four hundred-strong practice brings together alternative legal services and tech teams

  • 2yrs

Linklaters adds Norton Rose Fulbright partner to launch global risk advisory practice

Jane Caskey joins in London just days after cybersecurity partner duo left NRF for Allen & Overy

  • 2yrs

‘A natural move for us’ – Gateley launches collective actions practice

Listed UK law firm appoints two partners from claimant firm Slater & Gordon

  • 3yrs

Van Bael & Bellis launches London international trade team with hires from Crowell & Moring, Ashurst

Brussels-based independent launches new practice amid “unprecedented growth in EU and UK sanctions and export control legislation”

  • 3yrs

Emerging markets boutique launches arbitration practice with partner hires in London and Paris

Projects and energy specialist Trinity International cites demand from clients caught up in disputes

  • 3yrs

MoFo targets London contentious IP work with four-strong team hire from Brown Rudnick

Team's arrival comes hard on heels of acquisition of West Coast IP boutique Durie Tangri

  • 3yrs
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