Lateral Partner Moves in London

Lateral

Partner

Moves

London

July - August 2017

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Asserson Law Offices particularly professional footballers, managers, Former Berwin Leighton Paisner partner Robert and directors, on private client matters and Gross has joined Asserson Law Offices as the general commercial issues. new head of finance and infrastructure. Gross specialises in finance, project finance, PPP and DAC Beachcroft DAC Beachcroft has appointed Victoria Kennedy PFI transactions with a focus on cross-border from BLM to the firm’s Claims Solutions group. work. Kennedy specialises in regulatory Baker McKenzie defence/casualty work. Baker McKenzie has hired a trio of new partners this round up. Geoff O’Dea joins from Freshfields Davitt Jones Bould Louisa Swanton has joined the real estate Bruckhaus Deringer where he specialised in restructuring, insolvency and acquisition finance. boutique as a partner from Devonshires, where Matthew Smith and Sue McLean join from she was a senior real estate contract lawyer. Swanton has particular expertise in development Travers Smith and Morrison & Foerster respectively. Smith, formerly senior counsel at and agricultural property. Travers Smith, joins as a partner in the Finance Dentons practice; his experience encompasses acquisition Dentons has hired two partners into its Tax and leveraged finance, asset-based lending and team. Alex Tostevin joins from Weil Gotshal & derivatives. Former counsel McLean joins as a Manges, where he was a senior associate, and partner in the Information Technology and Cristiano Bortolotti joins from boutique Communications practice. consulting firm Transfer Pricing Global Solutions which he founded. Tostevin advises clients Bird & Bird Bird & Bird has hired finance partner Samrad across a range of sectors whilst Bortolotti Nazer from Locke Lord and commercial/ specialises in transfer pricing. Bortolotti will work closely with the Luxembourg office, as well procurement partner Stuart Cairns from Pinsent Masons. Nazer led the Banking and Finance as developing the firm’s Tax practice in Benelux team at Locke Lord and specialises in advising and the rest of Europe. lenders and borrowers on corporate finance, DLA Piper corporate lending, and structured finance. DLA Piper has welcomed a trio of new partners. Cairns, who led the Procurement Law team at Philip Crump joins from Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Pinsent Masons, will join the Commercial and will head the London Leveraged Finance practice supporting major infrastructure projects team; he represents financial sponsors and involving complex tech elements. creditors in relation to European LBOs and restructurings. Doug Murning joins from Kirkland Bray & Krais Music, sport, and entertainment boutique Bray & Ellis; he specialises in advising on lender-side finance deals, special situations and alternative & Krais has appointed Farrer & Co associate Udo Onwere as a partner to lead its private client and credit provider transactions. Former counsel Ben sports offering. Former professional footballer Brown joins the Tax team from Allen & Overy, and will advise on the domestic and Onwere advises high-profile sports individuals,

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international tax aspects of M&A, corporate Fladgate transactions, and finance work. Fladgate has strengthened its Competition and Regulatory practice with the addition of Alex DWF Haffner. Haffner was previously a managing DWF has hired two partners in London. Mark associate at Dentons and joins Fladgate as a Shepherd joins the Commercial Real Estate team partner. His experience includes competition law from Paul Hastings and medical negligence and broader commercial advice to clients in the lawyer Will Marshall joins the Insurance team sports, media, and telecoms sectors. from Capsticks. Fletcher Day DWFM Beckman Fletcher Day has appointed a quartet of new Commercial real estate partner Nadeem Khan partners. Wayne O’Neil joins as head of joins the West End firm from Gateley plc. corporate from Maclay Murray & Spens, Neil Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher Pfister joins from Downs Solicitors where he was Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher continues to grow its head of corporate and commercial, and European arbitration offering with the addition corporate lawyer Kyri Papantonious joins from of Jeffrey Sullivan from Allen & Overy. Sullivan’s Judge Sykes Frixou. In addition, the firm has practice covers international commercial and welcomed Andrea London from Rosenblatt investment treaty arbitrations, and he has Solicitors as the new head of employment. particular expertise in public international law. Hogan Lovells Faegre Baker Daniels Hogan Lovells has hired Jonathan Baird from Faegre Baker Daniels has recruited Robert Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer to boost the Wieder from Bryan Cave. Wieder joins the firm’s firm’s Global Investment Funds practice in Corporate practice where he will advise on London. Baird specialises in investment fund and corporate finance, M&A, and general corporate asset management work. matters. Jury O’Shea Farrer & Co Boutique real estate and disputes firm Jury Rachel Mainwaring-Taylor joins private client O’Shea has hired commercial litigation/fraud firm Farrer & Co from Hunters Solicitors. She partner Daniel Loblowitz from Stewarts Law. specialises in personal tax and succession Kirkland & Ellis planning, both domestically and internationally. Marcus Thompson and Anand Damodaran have Fieldfisher joined Kirkland & Ellis from Ropes & Gray. Fieldfisher has hired corporate lawyer Keith Thompson joins the Government & Internal Woodhouse from Hogan Lovells. Woodhouse Investigations group and will assist clients with specialises in advising private equity houses and business-related criminal matters such as anti- investors on investments, M&A, disposals, and money laundering, anti-bribery and corruption, restructurings and has a particular focus on international sanctions, and corporate Africa. investigations. Funds lawyer Damodaran will advise clients on the formation of credit, private equity and real estate funds.

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Latham & Watkins Mundays Latham & Watkins has appointed David Berman Michael Nixon joins Surrey headquartered firm from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, where Mundays from DMH Stallard to head up the he was head of financial services and regulatory. Commercial Property team from London. Berman’s practice focuses on representing Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe financial institutions on regulatory, compliance, Jacqui Hatfield, the former head of non- and governance-related matters, and advising contentious financial services at Reed Smith, clients on transactions and remedial work. joins US rival Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe. Locke Lord Hatfield specialises in fintech and providing Locke Lord continues to grow its London office specialist regulatory advice on transactions with the appointment of three partners. Sean within the financial services sector. Donovan-Smith joins the Investment Adviser &

Alternative Funds practice from K&L Gates, Peters & Peters Disputes and business crime boutique Peters & where he headed the Investment Management Peters has hired former head of special crime at and Funds team in London, Ben Henry joins the the Crown Prosecution Service, Nick Vamos as a firm’s Real Estate practice from Bird & Bird and partner. Andrew Shindler joins the Corporate practice group from King Wood & Mallesons. Phanar Legal Philip Rogers has left US firm Brown Rudnick, Maples Teesdale where he was head of emerging markets, to set Commercial property boutique Maples Teesdale up new firm Phanar Legal. Rogers is a corporate welcomes real estate partner Martin Smith from finance lawyer who specialises in cross-border Hewitsons together with John Bosworth who transactions, M&A, and IPOs. joins from Ashfords where he headed the Planning team. Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman The US firm has hired Deborah Ruff to launch its McCarthy Denning London Disputes practice. She will lead McCarthy Denning has announced the Pillsbury’s Global Arbitration practice as well as appointments of real estate lawyer John Dean heading the Disputes practice in the UK. Ruff from Seddons, and oil & gas specialist John joins from Norton Rose Fulbright where she Vercoe who was formerly a partner at Canadian specialised in international arbitration within firm Fasken Martineau. various sectors including energy, infrastructure McGuireWoods and constructions, TMT, finance, and corporate. US firm McGuireWoods continues the expansion

of its London office with the additions of Pinsent Masons Pinsent Masons has hired corporate finance duo corporate partner Jeremy Davis from K&L Gates Gareth Jones and Julian Stanier from Berwin and former banking partner at King & Wood Leighton Paisner. Jones’ experience spans Mallesons Lorraine Vaz. Davis specialises in M&A various corporate finance transactions, M&A, and has significant cross-border experience. Vaz and equity capital markets, with particular specialises in domestic and cross-border expertise in the betting and gaming, financial financings and joins the Debt Finance practice.

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services, and mining sectors. Stanier advises Schillings clients on cross border and domestic M&A, in The boutique reputation, privacy, and family law particular on UK public company takeovers in firm has recruited Amy Pope, the former US the financial services, energy, technology and deputy homeland security advisor to President gaming sectors. Obama. Pope joins the firm’s International Crisis and Problem Solving practice as a partner, and Pitmans Law will assist clients in evaluating reputation and Former Irwin Mitchell commercial litigation/ privacy risks. arbitration partner Donna Goldsworthy has joined Pitmans Law. Shoosmiths National firm Shoosmiths has appointed PWC litigation lawyer Susannah Wakefield to its Tom Ince joins PWC from Reed Smith, where he Insurance practice. Wakefield joins from Taylor was deputy leader of the Global Employment Wessing and specialises in commercial insurance Law practice. He has experience in all aspects of and reinsurance disputes. contentious and non-contentious employment law, with expertise in outsourcing and Simkins commercial transactions covering multiple Media and commercial specialists Simkins have jurisdictions. hired intellectual property litigator Jim Dennis from Gordon Dadds, along with employment Reed Smith partner Susan Thompson from Magrath. Reed Smith has announced the hire of three partners: Ingrid Silver from Dentons, Jane Simmons & Simmons Howard from Gowling WLG and Richard Hakes Simmons & Simmons has hired Mark Carroll and from Allen & Overy. Silver, who headed the Chris Walton from Clifford Chance. Carroll, who Media and Entertainment practice at Dentons, finished up at Clifford Chance last year, specialises in providing commercial and specialises in M&A and re-joins Simmons & regulatory advice with particular expertise in Simmons where he previously worked for 12 new media. Howard specialises in handling years. Walton has represented major US and disputes for the larger accountancy firms and international banking firms and is experienced in joins the Commercial Disputes group. Hakes was advising on a range of corporate finance, US a senior associate at Allen & Overy and securities, and equity and debt capital markets specialises in ship and aircraft finance for transactions. lenders and owners/ operators. Watson Farley & Williams Reynolds Porter Chamberlain Watson Farley & Williams has announced the Jon Bartley, former co-head of the Data team at hire of three partners in this edition: corporate Penningtons Manches, has joined Reynolds partner Colin Graham, asset finance partner Porter Chamberlain. Bartley specialises in digital Louise Mor and energy partner Stephen Parker. technology, e-commerce, data protection, Graham has joined the firm’s Energy & cybersecurity and consumer law. Infrastructure group from Orrick, specialising in M&A and project development in the upstream oil & gas sector. Mor joins the firm’s specialist

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Transport group from White & Case and The Specialist Partner Team specialises in aviation, rail, and equipment

financing. Parker joins from Paul Hastings and his practice covers both contentious and transactional work, with expertise in restructuring and insolvency matters and Scott Gibson banking and finance litigation. Director [email protected] Winckworth Sherwood Dhana Sabanathan has joined the Private Client team at Winckworth Sherwood from McDermott Will & Emery. Sabanathan has significant experience in the wealth management sector, working with high-net-worth individuals, family Sloane Poulton Director offices, entrepreneurs, corporates and owner- [email protected] managed businesses.

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