Lateral Partner Moves in London

Lateral

Partner

Moves

London

March - April 2017

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Andrews Kurth Kenyon Boies Schiller & Flexner Texas headquartered firm Andrews Kurth US litigation firm Boies Schiller & Flexner has Kenyon welcomes energy transactional lawyer hired Herbert Smith Freehills’ global head of James Comyn in the Business Transactions Public International Law Dominic Roughton to section. Comyn, who previously served as join its London office. Roughton specialises in managing partner of Shearman & Sterling’s Abu the energy and mining sectors and has Dhabi office, has a practice guiding clients previously worked on international boundary through complex, international mergers and disputes, sovereignty, treaty negotiations and acquisitions, joint ventures and minority interpretation and investor state dispute investments. resolution procedures.

ARC Pensions Law Boodle Hatfield Niche firm ARC expands its practice with the hire Boodle Hatfield has strengthened its Corporate of Jane Kola from Gowling WLG. Kola specialises team with the appointment of Jane Ireland. in defined contribution pension schemes. Ireland joins from Ashford and specialises in mergers & acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures Ashurst and reorganisations. Ashurst has made moves to re-strengthen its City finance offering as it develops its European Bristows high-yield offering with the hire of Allen & Overy Bristows has hired intellectual property lawyer senior associate Tamer Bahgat as a partner. Simon Clark and trade mark attorney Ian Baghat is primarily responsible for working on Gruselle as partners alongside seven other leveraged buyouts, refinancings and dividend lawyers and support staff from Berwin Leighton recapitalizations transactions. Paisner (BLP). Clark, who was head of BLP’s Intellectual Property Group, specialises in all Berwin Leighton Paisner aspects of intellectual property law, including Berwin Leighton Paisner has appointed Reed copyright and design rights, patents, trademarks, Smith data protection partner Kate Brimsted, passing off and breach of confidence. Gruselle and Osborne Clarke corporate tax consultant was head of the Brand Management and Trade Mark Brailsford, as partners. Brimstead will head Marks Group and advises on trademarks and BLP’s Data and Cyber Security practice whilst designs. finance tax expert Brailsford will be tasked with growing BLP’s tax advisory capability in the Browne Jacobson finance arena. Browne Jacobson is continuing to grow its technology sector expertise in the City with the Bevan Brittan appointment of corporate finance partner Jon Bevan Brittan has hired social housing partner Snade. Snade joins the firm from Irwin Mitchell Neil Brand from Clarke Willmott. The move is in London and has a particular specialism within part of Clarke Willmott’s loss of the bulk of its the technology sector. social housing team.

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Brown Rudnick Covington & Burling Brown Rudnick has expanded its Cross- Project finance partners Ben Donovan and Border/International Transactions and Finance Agnieszka Klich have joined Covington & Burling practice with the appointment of King & Wood from Chadbourne & Parke. Donovan specialises Mallesons acquisition finance associate Agnes in project development and finance in oil and Abosi as a partner. The firm has also gas. Klich focuses on renewables, power, water, strengthened its International Arbitration team oil, gas and mining projects. In addition David with the hire of Pinsent Masons partner Virginie Miles joins from Allen & Overy Peerpoint, where Colaiuta who will continue with her focus on he was a Consultant. Miles advises on general construction and energy disputes and bilateral lending, leveraged, real estate finance and asset and multilateral investment treaty disputes. finance. These moves bolster Covington & Burling’s project finance Group. Capsticks Capsticks sees a bolster of its Social Housing DAC Beachcroft Group with its hire of social co-housing heads, DAC Beachcroft has appointed Nick Fothergill to James Howard, Chimi Shakohoxha and partner its London Corporate team. Fothergill joins the Jonathan Hulley from Clarke Willmott. Howard firm from Watson Farley & Williams in London and Shakohoxha specialise in commercial and has extensive experience advising on property, whilst Hulley focuses on property mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, litigation. corporate reorganisations, commercial contracts, private equity/infrastructure Clarkslegal transactions and general company law matters. Clarkslegal has hired Ruth Wilkinson as partner The firm has also added to its Safety, Health and in its Construction and Engineering Group from Environment team with the appointment of CMS. Wilkinson specialises in construction Kirsty Gomersal from Clyde & Co. Gomersal industry dispute resolution and related advisory specialises in complex environmental, health work. and safety defence work. Clarke Willmott Debevoise & Plimpton Clarke Willmott has appointed Hannah Langford US firm Debevoise & Plimpton welcomes leading as social housing partner from Clarion Housing private funds regulatory lawyer Patricia Volhard where she was a property and contracts who will be operating out of its Frankfurt and associate. Langford specialises in development London offices. Volhard, joins from Pöllath + and regeneration. Partners where she was a partner in Frankfurt advising private funds on a range of regulatory Clyde & Co Clyde & Co has hired Terry Saeedi to its Pensions issues. team. Saeedi joins from Gordons where she has Dechert specialised in pension’s law for over 20 years. Dechert has appointed Robert Bradshaw as Sector experience includes financial services, partner in its Banking and Finance department. transportation and utilities. Bradshaw joins from Kirkland & Ellis and focuses on cross-border financing transactions, including

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leveraged and acquisition financing, refinancing dealing with property development disputes and and restructurings. adjudications.

Dentons Enyo Law Dentons has hired Celyn Armstrong and Litigation specialist Enyo Law has launched Tax Cameron Half as partners in its Financial and Insolvency practices, with the hires of Fiona Disputes and Contentious Regulatory and Capital Walkinshaw and Louise Bell. Walkinshaw joins Markets practices respectively. Armstrong joins from Deloitte where she was head of corporate from Linklaters where he was counsel in its tax disputes for six years. Bell joins from Financial Regulation Group. He has extensive Olswang ahead of the firm's tripartite merger experience advising banks, insurers, investment with CMS Cameron McKenna and Nabarro, and managers, financial markets intermediaries and has a particular expertise in insolvency disputes. other regulated firms. Half joins from Allen & Overy in London, where he was counsel. He is a Farrer & Co Farrer & Co has hired Berwin Leighton Paisner senior US securities lawyer representing intellectual property partner Ian De Freitas. He is underwriters, lead managers and corporate and the latest partner to leave the firm’s IP practice sovereign issuers and shareholders on equity following a restructuring that sees the firm pull and debt capital markets transactions. out of trade mark licensing and disputes work. Dorsey & Whitney His practice focuses on IP, IT and data matters International law firm Dorsey & Whitney that involve litigation and regulatory welcomes Bob Cordran into its Employment investigations. department. Cordran, who was formerly a partner at Marriott Harrison LLP, is an Fieldfisher European law firm Fieldfisher has further experienced employment lawyer having advised strengthened its Personal Injury and Medical clients across a wide variety of industries Negligence team with the addition of associate including retail, media, professional services, Jane Weakley who joins as partner. Weakley healthcare, financial services and technology. originally trained at Fieldfisher and is re-joining DWF from Irwin Mitchell. In addition Dougall Molson DWF continues to drive growth in London in its who was formally the Paris Head of Finance at Arbitration and Litigation practice with its hire of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has joined arbitration partner Richard Twomey from Fieldfisher’s Finance practice. Dougall specialises Pinsent Masons. Twomey has 15 years of in complex structured finance, commodity experience in international dispute resolution. finance, capital markets and derivatives.

Edwin Coe Fladgate Formerly at Rosenblatt Solicitors, Nik Haria has Fladgate welcomes Neal Todd and Seetal Modi joined Edwin Coe has Head of Construction. He into its Tax and Finance departments deals with both contentious and non- respectively. Todd joins from Berwin Leighton contentious construction matters, frequently Paisner as head of the Tax department and has extensive experience in M&A, structured and

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asset finance and general corporate tax advising insolvency practitioners and financial planning. Modi joins from Sidley Austin, where institutions. The firm has also hired Andrew Tait he was an associate, and advises on a broad as a partner in the betting and gaming practice range of loan and capital markets debt secured area from his position as group general counsel by a variety of underlying assets, in particular & chief compliance officer at internet gaming real estate and renewable energy. company Mansion Group.

Forsters Gowling WLG A team acquisition for Forsters sees Private Michael Darowski has been appointed as a Client head Anthony Thompson join alongside partner in Gowling WLG’s Disputes Resolution fellow Gowling WLG partners Catharine Bell, Group from Hogan Lovells where he was Nicholas Jacob, and Daniel Ugur. All previously counsel. Darowski has 15 years of experience in worked at legacy firm Lawrence Graham before arbitration and specialises in litigation in the its merger with Wragge & Co and Gowlings. The energy sector. partners will be joined by 10 lawyers and five staff members. Gunnercooke Gunnercooke has hired Peter Bohm from Bates Fox Williams Wells Braithwaite. Bohm specialises in Fox Williams has hired Guy Morgan as a partner transactional M&A work in private companies, in its Capital Markets Group from Stephenson representing buyers and sellers. Bohm also Harwood where he was a senior associate. focuses on commercial contracts, joint ventures, Morgan focuses on equity capital markets mergers and partnership agreements. transactions, takeovers and advising institutions on domestic and cross-border corporate finance Hausfeld & Co Competition litigation lawyer Scott Campbell transactions. rejoins Hausfeld & Co from Stewarts Law. Freshfields Campbell has extensive experience of acting on The Serious Fraud Office’s joint-head of bribery behalf of corporate claimants in a range of and corruption, Ben Morgan, has been hired by complex, multi-jurisdictional commercial Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer as partner. disputes arising out of infringements of EU and Morgan joins the Corporate Crime and Global UK competition law. Investigations practice and has experience in high profile cases, such as the SFO’s first Hill Dickinson International law firm Hill Dickinson continues to deferred prosecution agreement in 2015. His strengthen its National Health practice with the hire sees the practice grow to five partners. appointment of commercial partner Jessica Gordon Dadds Kohler. Kohler joins from Capsticks where she Gordon Dadds has hired Michael McCarthy into advised health and social care clients across the its Insolvency/Restructuring practice. McCarthy full range of their commercial, contractual, joins from Kennedys and focuses on both funding and procurement needs. contentious and non-contentious insolvency matters as well as restructuring, principally

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Hodge Jones & Allen Latham & Watkins Hodge Jones & Allen has appointed former Head Latham & Watkins continues to bolster its of Family Jeetesh Patel from Rollingsons regulatory capabilities with the hire of Daniel Solicitors. Patel has more than 15 years’ Csefalvay, a financial regulatory partner from experience advising on matrimonial and family Linklaters. Csefalvay’s practice has largely been law matters representing high net worth focused on advising on complex domestic and individuals. cross-border financial regulatory and transactional matters. The firm also expands its Holland & Knight litigation team with the hire of Olswang’s Ian Aviation finance lawyers William Coleman and Felstead. Felstead specialises in commercial, Victoria Koob have joined Holland & Knight’s media and regulatory litigation and has acted on Transportation Finance practice as partners. high profile matters such as for News Group Coleman who was senior counsel and Koob who Newspapers regarding the hacking scandal. was a senior associate both join from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. They have a broad range of Linklaters asset finance experience, including cross-border Linklaters has hired Sarah Mook as a partner in asset finance and leasing structures, with a focus the firm’s Restructuring team. Sarah joins from on the aviation industry. Goldman Sachs where she was a managing director. Her areas of expertise include special Holman Fenwick Willan situations and company side advisory, financing, Holman Fenwick Willan continues to expand its equity, distressed M&A and capital structure Construction and Commodities practices with solutions. the appointment of Ben Mellors and Adam Topping respectively. Mellors, who joins from Marriott Harrison Beale & Company Solicitors, has experience Marriott Harrison has added to its IP and Real working on disputes relating to projects in the Estate teams with Alex Denoon, Julian Hitchcock Middle East and Africa. Topping who joins from and Nick Smith. Life Sciences experts Denoon Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, where he was and Hitchcock practised together at Denoon special counsel, has expertise in regulatory and Legal and specialise in advising pharmaceutical transactional matters across a range of and medical technology companies on IP commodities. matters. Smith joins the real estate team from Thor Lion, specialising in development and Kennedys secured lending. Kennedys has hired experienced marine insurance and shipping partner, Deug Rong Lee McDermott Will & Emery to its international marine insurance practice. McDermott has expanded its restructuring and Lee joins from Clyde & Co where he was counsel. insolvency offering by hiring Alan Gar from Lee specialises in litigation and arbitration Simmons & Simmons. Gar has substantial relating to shipbuilding and offshore experience in advising financial institutions on construction. restructuring and insolvency matters.

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Mishcon de Reya Paul Hastings Mishcon de Reya gains another commercial Paul Hastings has hired corporate crime and disputes partner as Genevieve Quierin joins from investigations partner Simon Airey to lead its Humphries Kerstetter. Quierin has a broad new White Collar Crime and Corporate practice with a focus on complex commercial Investigations practice in London. Airey formally litigation, regulatory investigations, professional led DLA Piper’s tax investigations team where he negligence claims and competition litigation. The focussed on regulatory, criminal and civil firm has also hired two Berwin Leighton Paisner litigation, money laundering, fraud and bribery. partners: restructuring & insolvency specialist David Leibowitz joins after nearly 30 years at BLP Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison Paul Weiss makes a very rare move with the hire and Joanna Lampert bolsters the property of Alvaro Membrillera to its Corporate Group litigation practice. from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. Membrillera Morgan Lewis & Bockius focuses on private equity mergers and Morgan Lewis & Bockius has strengthened its acquisitions and high-yield offerings for White Collar practice with Norton Rose underwriters and private equity sponsors in Fulbright’s global co-head of investigations, Chris Europe and Latin America. Warren-Smith and disputes partner Melanie Ryan. Warren-Smith will lead Morgan Lewis’s Pattinson & Brewer Barrister and counsel, Elizabeth George has White Collar, Corporate Investigations and joined Pattinson & Brewer as partner and head Sanctions Practice and advises on financial of employment from Leigh Day. George crime, fraud, compliance, regulatory and specialises in discrimination. corruption issues. Ryan specialises in commercial litigation and advises corporates, financial Proskauer Rose institutions and professionals on investigations Proskauer Rose has appointed Paul Lucas from and regulatory enforcement issues. Linklaters where he was counsel. His specialisation includes UK and international Morton Fraser banking transactions, hospitality and advising Leading Scottish law firm Morton Fraser has financial institutions and private equity sponsors enhanced its business banking expertise and on real estate finance. links to the City of London with the appointment of Ross Caldwell in the Banking & Asset Finance Rosenblatt Solicitors team. Caldwell joins from Taylor Wessing and Former Edwin Coe partner, Stuart Nash has been specialises in advising lenders, borrowers and appointed by Rosenblatt Solicitors to its sponsors in complex financing transactions. Construction Group. Coe specialises in property development and dispute resolution with New Quadrant Partners experience in ICC, LCIA and AAA arbitrations. New Quadrant Partners has hired Marilyn McKeever into its Tax practice. She joins from Shakespeare Martineau Berwin Leighton Paisner and specialises in Shakespeare Martineau welcomes Bruce Jury, international and UK estate tax planning, John Archer and Paul Spibey into its Commercial including personal and trust taxation.

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Property, Banking & Finance and Finance & respectively. Knowles was director of litigation Disputes practices respectively. Jury and Archer funding at Harbour Litigation Funding and has both join from Moore Blatch. Jury has litigation experience from both an advisory and experience in all aspects of real estate law and client perspective. Henderson was of counsel at Archer advises lenders, borrowers and Covington & Burling and has represented investment managers on the financing of real multinational clients in a wide range of estate. Spibey joins from Mills & Reeve and competition related litigation. Both join as focuses on advising banks, fund managers and partners. building societies on a range of issues, including mis-selling of financial services products, fraud Thrings Thring has expanded its Private Client Group and insurance related issues. with the return of Stuart Crippin as partner from Shoosmiths his position as managing associate at Mishcon de National law firm Shoosmiths has expanded its Reya. Crippin has previously worked at Thrings venture capital offering with the appointment of and specialises in personal taxations and wealth corporate lawyer Steve Barnett from US firm planning across the UK and offshore. Orrick where he was special counsel. Barnett advises high-tech and fast growth companies at Veale Wasbrough Vizards Veale Wasbrough Vizards’ merger with leading all stages of their development, from seed, angel healthcare practice Lockharts sees Paul Werrell and venture capital financings through to exit. join its Healthcare team where he deals with a He also regularly acts for investors in these mixed caseload of contentious and non- companies. contentious work. Simmons & Simmons Simmons & Simmons hires three partners this Wallace Employment lawyer Daniel Isaac joins Wallace round up – former Head of Construction from Withers. Isaac advises individuals and Disputes at Bond Dickinson, Emily Monastiriotis, organisations on workplace relationships joins the International Dispute Resolution team. involving employment law, partnership law or Monastiriotis specialises in construction disputes shareholders’ rights. from an insurance perspective (professional risks) as well as pure construction (mainly Weil Gotshal & Manges contractor focused). Olswang’s former interim Baker & McKenzie infrastructure and real estate CEO Michael Burdon joins Simmons’ IP Litigation finance specialist Paul Hibbert joins Weil Gotshal practice and capital markets lawyer Amer & Manges. His expertise covers leveraged Siddiqui joins from Clifford Chance where he was finance, structured finance, real estate finance a senior associate. Siddiqui advises on a range of and general corporate banking with particular securitisation and asset backed finance. focus on advising both sponsors and lenders on significant financings of real assets. Hibbert’s Stewarts Law hire is part of a continued push by Weil to grow Stewarts Law has appointed Matthew Knowles the firm’s real assets platform. and Kenny Henderson into its International Arbitration and Competition Litigation Groups

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White & Case The Specialist Partner Team Finance partner Chris McGarry joins White & Case from Ropes & Gray. McGarry will become a member of the Capital Markets practice and support the structured finance team in London.

Winckworth Sherwood Scott Gibson Winckworth Sherwood has boosted its Real Director Estate team with the appointment of Andrew [email protected] Kinsey from Rosenblatt where he was head of

Real Estate. Kinsey specialises in all aspects of the acquisition, development, financing, management and disposal of high-value commercial and residential real estate. Sloane Poulton Director Winston & Strawn [email protected] US firm Winston & Strawn continues the expansion of its London office with the hire of At Edwards Gibson the specialist partner team provides: Angus Duncan. Duncan, who was previously at Confidential partner representation and Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft, advises on the consultation securitisation of a range of assets including A search service flexible to our client’s loans, consumer assets, trade receivables, requirements commercial real estate and hedge fund interests. Advice on team moves

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