Lateral Partner Moves in London Jan - Feb 2017 REPRESENTATION – SEARCH – TEAM MOVES www.edwardsgibson.com Addleshaw Goddard counsel at King & Wood Mallesons, and advises Addleshaw Goddard has hired construction businesses and senior executives on contentious partner Julia Court from King & Wood and non-contentious matters. Mallesons. Court specialises in advising private and public sector owners, developers, funders, Bird & Bird and contractors. Bird & Bird has launched an international Tax Disputes practice based in the UK, with the Akin Gump appointment of a team from PwC Legal led by U.S firm Akin Gump welcomes Kambiz Larizadeh Andy Brown and Justin Balson. Brown is from Addleshaw Goddard into the Dispute recognised as one of the leading tax disputes Resolution practice. Larizadeh focuses on high- practitioners in the UK, specialising in tax value, cross-border commercial litigation and investigations and high profile tax disputes. international arbitration matters. Balson is an experienced tax disputes solicitor. Guadalupe Sampedro also joins as a partner in Ashfords the International Privacy & Data Protection National law firm Ashfords has hired Jim Morris practice from PayPal where she was the EU data as head of the firm's Aviation team. Morris protection officer. moves from Irwin Mitchell and was a former RAF pilot. BLM BLM rehires Ross Baker as partner in its London- Baker Botts based Professional Indemnity team. He was Baker Botts has strengthened its Energy practice previously solicitor at the firm between 2002- with the hire of James Douglass. Douglass, was 2009. Baker joins BLM from Bond Dickinson. head of Energy, Infrastructure and Resources Baker specialises in professional indemnity and EMEA at King & Wood Mallesons, and specialises directors’ and officers’ insurance. in the development and financing of energy and infrastructure projects. Blake Morgan Blake Morgan has recently appointed Kate Baker McKenzie Silverman and Justin Weare as partners. Global law firm Baker McKenzie has hired Will Silverman, was a partner in the Social Housing Holder and Carl Richards in the M&A/Private team at TLT and joins the London-based Built Equity and Employment departments Environment team. She specialises in housing respectively. Holder was head of King & Wood and regeneration and advises Registered Mallesons’ China group and his practice spans Providers and local authorities. Weare, an across corporate/M&A and private equity, with a associate at Jones Day, joins the Commercial particular focus on technology, sports, media Litigation team as a partner. He advises and entertainment. Richards was head of domestic, international and multinational Employment at King & Wood Mallesons, he corporates, as well as individuals, on advised on employment aspects of corporate shareholder and joint venture disputes, offshore transactions, including complex carve outs. He claims, energy disputes and product liability also has worked with a number of funds on matters. employment/incentive issues. Boodle Hatfield BDBF Boodle Hatfield has appointed Thomas Williams Cerys Williams joins this leading employment in the Litigation practice. Williams joins the firm law boutique as a partner. Williams was a from Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP. © Edwards Gibson Ltd www.edwardsgibson.com 73 Watling Street, London, EC4M 9BJ 020 7153 4903 Page 2 of 9 Much of his practice is international and focuses focuses on major European white collar and on commercial litigation and arbitration. related civil and regulatory issues. Bristows DAC Beachcroft Bristows has hired Robert Bond who was head of Former King & Woods Malleson counsel Helen Data Protection and Cyber Security at Charles Murcott joins the London Real Estate practice at Russell Speechly. Bond joins the Commercial IT DAC Beachcroft as a partner. She acts for team and specialises in e-commerce, computer occupiers on HQ relocations and has extensive games, media and publishing, data protection, experience of structured real estate transactions information security and cyber risks. and real estate finance. She also brings with her the Royal London relationship. The firm has Browne Jacobson promoted to partner two legal directors from Browne Jacobson continues to widen its Clyde & Co: Michelle Traxler and Tom Walshaw. insurance offering with the appointments of Both follow four other partners from Clyde & Co Colin Peck and Francis Mackie, who both join who joined the firm’s Claims Solution Group at from Weightmans. Peck advises on insurance the end of 2016. and reinsurance policy coverage and related disputes, litigation, arbitration and mediation, Debevoise & Plimpton focusing on the London and Lloyd's markets. The New York firm has appointed leading Mackie specialises in the London insurance and arbitration and public international law reinsurance market. practitioner Wendy Miles QC as partner in the International Dispute Resolution group. She joins Bryan Cave from Boies, Schiller & Flexner. Miles QC has Bryan Cave expands its U.S. Private Client team experience conducting arbitrations under all the with the hire of David Adler who joins from major institutions, as well as ad hoc arbitrations McDermott Will & Emery. Adler is a U.S. tax and significant public international law matters. lawyer who advises international entities, individuals and intermediaries on U.S. related Dentons planning. Dentons welcomes Nick Hayday, counsel at Freshfields, into the Capital Markets group as a Clyde & Co partner. Hayday specialises in a wide range of Clyde & Co has appointed two partners: Robert securities work, including advising underwriters Lawson QC and David Hansom. Commercial and issuers in connection with issues of debt, barrister Lawson QC joins from Quadrant equity, equity-related and Islamic finance Chambers and will be in the firm’s Aviation securities. team. Hansom, a partner and national head of the Public Sector team at Veale Wasbrough DLA Piper Vizards, will lead the firm's public procurement DLA Piper has hired Omer Maroof as a partner in offering. the Real Estate department. Maroof, a managing associate at King & Wood Mallesons, and follows Covington & Burling the Real Estate team led by William Naunton. Covington & Burling has hired King & Wood Maroof advises on real estate investment, Mallesons’ head of Fraud and Investigations Ian management, forward funding, corporate Hargreaves. Hargreaves will join the U.S firm in structured real estate and development work. its European Dispute Resolution practice. He © Edwards Gibson Ltd www.edwardsgibson.com 73 Watling Street, London, EC4M 9BJ 020 7153 4903 Page 3 of 9 DWF team working on some of the UK’s largest DWF has appointed Alistair Hogarth as partner in infrastructure projects. the Corporate M&A team. He joins from PwC Legal. He specialises in mid-tier mergers and Forsters acquisitions transactions, large-scale due Previously a counsel at Hogan Lovells, Victoria diligence projects, private equity transactions, du Croz joins Forsters as a partner in the and joint ventures across sectors including Planning team. Du Croz advises developers, energy and industry, retail and technology. institutional investors and public sector bodies on the whole range of complex planning issues. Eversheds Sutherland Eversheds Sutherland welcomes four new Fox Williams partners: Peter Harper, Karim Mahmud, Frank Fox Williams has strengthened its Dispute Thompson and Carl Allen. Harper who was a Resolution practice with the hire of David Butler. senior associate at Allen & Overy, joins the firm Butler was a partner and co-head of Harvey’s as a partner in the EU Competition team. He has Cayman Island Litigation and Insolvency practice. advised clients on high profile, complex and strategic global and UK-focused transactions and Goodwin investigations. Mahmud, a projects partner, was Matthew Pohlman joins Goodwin’s London recruited from Jones Day. His practice focuses office as a Real Estate partner in the Hospitality on the structuring, development and group. Pohlman was previously senior vice implementation of major energy projects with president and corporate counsel at the Four an emphasis on the oil & gas sector. Thompson Seasons Hotel and Resorts. leaves K&L Gates, where he was a senior associate. Thompson’s practice focuses on Gowling WLG insurance coverage disputes and non- Gowling WLG welcomes Gordon Bell as a partner contentious coverage advice. Allen joins from in the International Arbitration team. Bell was Pinsent Masons and specialises in financial previously a partner and co-head of restructuring and business recovery. International Arbitration at Reed Smith and before that was head of International Arbitration Fieldfisher at Pinsent Masons. He has experience in the Fieldfisher continues its expansion with the hire construction, energy, oil and gas sector. of three new partners: Keith Barrett, James Walsh and Shane De Beer. Claimant personal Greenberg Traurig injury partner Keith Barrett joins from Irwin Greenberg Traurig further strengthens its Real Mitchell. Tech partner Walsh joins from King & Estate department with the hire of leading real Wood Mallesons and advises clients on network estate partner Danielle Martin from Reed Smith. infrastructure projects, IT and business process Martin focuses her practice on complex outsourcing, data centre projects and digital transactions in the private equity real estate regulation. Energy partner de Beer joins from sector. Dechert. His practice focuses on Russia, the CIS and the Middle East, and he is