Lateral Partner Moves in London

Lateral

Partner

Moves in

London

January/February 2012

Addleshaw Goddard Covington & Burling Insurance litigation specialist Mark Pring has White collar crime specialist Christopher Cooper joined from the London office of US firm joins from rival US firm Baker Botts. Chadbourne & Parke. Davenport Lyons Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld Philip Somarakis, a partner specialising in The US firm has recruited two partner funds licensing and motor offences, joins from Blake team Tim Pearce and Ian Meade from Simmons Lapthorn. & Simmons. Davis Polk & Wardwell Arnold & Porter The Wall Street firm has set up an English law Anna Buscall, a corporate partner focused on the practice in London with the hire of Freshfields life sciences sector, has arrived from Allen & corporate partner Simon Witty. Overy. DLA Piper Berwin Leighton Paisner Structured finance partner Martin Bartlam has Three new finance partners have arrived in the joined from US firm Orrick. shape of Andrei Baev (project finance) from Allen & Overy, Prashanth Satyadeva (structured Dundas & Wilson finance) from Clifford Chance and Steve Clark Two partner finance team comprising John Pike (real estate finance) from Dechert. The firm has and Ted Harrison have joined the London office also hired Linklaters corporate partner David from Stephenson Harwood. Barnes. EMW Bird & Bird The regional firm is growing its London offering Former head of commercial litigation at with the lateral hires of real estate lawyer Nick Olswang, Steven Baker, joins alongside non- Marshall from Mayer Brown, Litigation lawyer contentious construction partner Ed Cooke from Allan Reason from Lester Aldridge and asset DLA Piper. based lending specialist Jodi Tierney from Francis Wilks & Jones. All three join as Boodle Hatfield department heads. The firm has made a lateral finance hire with James Dakin from Nabarro. Eversheds The national firm has hired Sarah Swift (formerly Brown Rudnick Of Counsel at Freshfields) as a pensions partner The Boston headquartered firm has hired in London. The firm has also recruited real estate litigation and arbitration specialist Nicholas Tse partner Richard Lampart from Dundas & Wilson. from the London office of the French outfit Gide Loyrette Nouel. Fladgate Former Olswang head of construction David Charles Russell Weare has joined. Robert Mecrate-Butcher from Pinsent Masons has joined the employment team. Hogan Lovells Corporate partner David Levin, a specialist in the CMS Cameron McKenna energy & renewables sector, has moved from Finance lawyer Bill McCaffrey from Salans Eversheds. becomes head of the consumer finance group.

Jones Day Mishcon de Reya The US firm has announced the arrival of former Tax specialist Kassim Meghjee has been brought head of debt capital markets at Mayer Brown, in from Steptoe & Johnson. Drew Salvest, as well as in-house restructuring lawyer Matthew French from Nomura. Morgan Lewis & Bockius William Yonge has joined the funds practice K&L Gates from Proskauer Rose whilst immigration head White collar crime specialist Elizabeth Robertson Tracy Evlogidis arrives from Speechly Bircham. has joined from Addleshaw Goddard. Norton Rose Katten Muchin Rosenman Real Estate partner Neil Biswas has moved The firm has recruited former head of real estate laterally from Nabarro. at Mayer Brown, Peter Sugden, as its new London managing partner. Osborne Clarke Dominic Ross and Akmal Ghauri have joined the Kemp Little finance group from Taylor Wessing. Charles Russell corporate partner Glafkos Tombolis has joined the technology & digital Ropes & Gray media sector focused practice. Investment funds partner Matthew Judd has joined the US firm from White & Case. Latham & Watkins Former head of equity capital markets at Hogan Shearman & Sterling Lovells, Richard Brown, has joined the West The US firm has hired Ashurst projects and Coast firm’s London office. energy specialist John Inglis.

Lewis Silkin Sidley Austin The firm has hired Christopher Hitchins, formerly Stephen Blackshaw joins the corporate team head of London employment at Morgan Lewis & from Linklaters. Bockius. SJ Berwin LG Construction partner Stuart Jordan arrives from Three additional real estate finance partners US firm Greenberg Traurig Maher. have been recruited from Stephenson Harwood: John Fox (previously a consultant), Matthew East SNR Denton and Simon Elphick (previously senior associates). Linklaters partner Edward Hickman has joined the structured finance practice. Maier Blackburn Steven Maier and Cathleen Blackburn have set Squire Sanders Hammonds up their own boutique media firm. Both were Three shipping partners have joined the London previously partners at Manches. office: Graham Harris and Dharmendra Nair from Thomas Cooper and Linos Choo from DLA McGuire Woods where he was an associate. Norton Rose corporate M&A partner Simon J Cox has joined the growing London office of this Stewarts Law US firm. Arpita Dutt joins the employment team from Russell Jones & Walker.

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