Partner Moves January

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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.

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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

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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 experienced in Haynes and Boone international energy and M&A transactions. U.S firm Haynes and Boone has appointed three partners this round-up. Emma Russell and Zoe Foot Antsey Connor are hired as partners in the Financial Foot Antsey has appointed Ian Stubbs as a Services team and Andreas Silcher re-joins the partner in the firm’s Construction team. Stubbs firm. Russell, who was previously at Carey Olsen, joins from Pinsent Masons, where he headed a

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is an experienced finance lawyer specialising in Ian Cook. Cook joins from 1 Kings Bench Walk real estate finance and funds finance. Connor Chambers and is a specialist finance practitioner joins the firm from Ashurst, where she was within family law. senior associate, her practice focuses on the financing of investment funds and financial Jenner & Block institutions. Silcher rejoins the firm following a U.S firm Jenner & Block hires Jason Yardley, a time as general counsel of the LNG division at Litigation partner from White & Case, into the the Cardiff/Dryships Group. Silcher represents Litigation team. Yardley has represented clients clients in transactional matters in the maritime in a broad range of matters involving banking, and offshore energy sectors. finance, mining, energy, technology, media and telecommunications issues. Hill Dickinson International law firm Hill Dickinson has further K&L Gates expanded its Shipping practice with the hiring of K&L Gates has hired three partners. Disputes Tony Swinnerton and Lewis Moore from partner Clarissa Coleman joins K&L Gates from Swinnerton Moore LLP. Swinnerton specialises in Addleshaw Goddard. Coleman’s practice focuses all aspects of contentious dry shipping. Moore on corporate crime, specifically serious fraud specialises in ship sale and purchase, ship cases. Aviation Finance partners Philip Perrotta finance and all shipping related contentious and Sidanth Rajagopal both join from Kaye matters. The firm has also made two senior Scholer. Perrotta was the managing partner of appointments to its Insurance practice. Neil Kaye Scholer in London, prior to the firm’s Trayhurn and Dragos Stoica join from Triton merger with Arnold & Porter. Global Limited. Trayhurn joins as head of Insurance and Stoica joins the firm as partner Katten Muchin Rosenman having held the position of commercial director This roundup sees Katten expanding its and solicitor. Corporate practice with the hiring of Paul Rosen as partner. Rosen was a legal director at Clyde & Hogan Lovells Co. He has a broad corporate practice cover; Hogan Lovells welcomes Claire Lipworth as a M&A, private equity, corporate finance and partner in its Financial Services Litigation capital markets. He also advises on asset practice. Lipworth was previously chief criminal management and funds. counsel at the FCA. She brings criminal expertise to the firm’s financial services litigation, Kingsley Napley investigations and white collar fraud practices. Kingsley Napley has expanded its London practice with the hire of Juliet Carp as an Howard Kennedy Employment partner. Carp was previously at the Blake Morgan head of Residential Real Estate London office of U.S firm Dorsey & Whitney. Pervaze Ahmed has left to head Howard Kennedy’s Residential Real Estate team. Latham & Watkins Ahmed’s specific expertise resides in purchasing Latham & Watkins continues to grow its Dispute or disposing of prime or super-prime residential Resolution practice in 2017 with the hire of property in Central London. commercial litigation partner Martin Davies. Davies was a partner in the Litigation group at Irwin Mitchell Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and is the Irwin Mitchell expands its Private Client team first partner to leave the firm in London. with the hire of family law and divorce barrister

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Lewis Silkin McGuire Woods Lewis Silkin makes two new hires during this McGuire Woods has hired Jennifer Kafcas in the roundup; Dr. Christopher Hayes and Andrew firm’s Debt Finance and Derivatives practice in Wanamwaba. Hayes, a barrister from IBB London from O’Melveny & Myers where she was Solicitors joins as a partner, advises high- a senior counsel. She advises lenders and technology and brand-driven multinational borrowers in complex structured and cross- businesses across a variety of sectors, including border transactions in Europe and the U.S. IT and telecoms, software, automotive, manufacturing and pharmaceuticals. Mishcon de Reya Wanamwaba, a litigation partner from Ogier has Dispute Resolution partner Shaistah Akhtar joins extensive experience in advising major Mishcon de Reya from King & Wood Mallesons. corporations, technology market innovators in Akhtar will be responsible for the coordination emerging industries such as Fin Tech, and of the firm's Investigations, Fraud and financial institutions. Compliance group. The firm has also hired Jo Rickards as a partner in the Business Crime Linklaters group from Kingsley Napley. An expert in white A rare lateral partner hire for Linklaters in collar crime, Rickards represents individuals and London with the appointment of ex-Goldman corporate clients embroiled in corruption, fraud Sachs managing director and senior counsel, and money laundering. Susanna Cao Miranda. Joining the Litigation department, Cao Miranda’s practice focuses on Morrison & Foerster contentious regulatory issues within the Morrison & Foerster has recruited Rob Mailer as financial services sector. a partner in corporate/private equity from King & Wood Mallesons. His practice focuses on Locke Lord private investment fund formation and fund- Locke Lord expands its Corporate practice with raising, acting for both managers and investors. the hire of Sean Page, from Pinsent Masons. Page's work includes public and private M&A O’Melveny & Myers and equity capital markets transactions, with a U.S law firm O’Melveny & Myers has hired cross-border element. leading investment management partner Jonathan Blake. Blake was previously the Memery Crystal managing partner of SJ Berwin and head of King Memery Crystal appoints two new partners this & Wood Mallesons’ International Funds group. roundup: Jonathan Riley who joins the Blake’s experience focuses on various private Commercial and Media Technology team and and public funds. Alex Barnes who joins the Tax department. Riley, previously a partner at Gowling WLG, advises on Osborne Clarke sales and marketing, agency, distribution, Osborne Clarke makes three lateral hires this licensing, franchising, sponsorship, roundup: Rachel Couter from King & Wood merchandising, e-commerce, and related Mallesons, where she led the firm’s Contentious regulatory areas. Barnes was a former partner at Financial Services Regulatory practice; Nikki Irwin Mitchell, focuses his practice on a wide Worden from Addleshaw Goddard who was a range of corporate and real estate matters. partner in the Financial Regulatory team; and Arty Rajendra, who previously headed up the UK Litigation practice at Rouse Legal. She has

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extensive experience in trade mark, patent and at the East African Development Bank, where he design litigation. was head of legal.

Pinsent Masons Shoosmiths Pinsent Masons welcomes two partners this National law firm Shoosmiths has hired two new round-up. The firm has rehired EU Competition partners into the firm's London office partner Alan Davis from Jones Day, as head of its specialising in corporate and financial services EU and Competition practice. Hammand Akhtar, practices. Andrew Lockerbie, from TLT, joins the who joins from Ashurst, is a corporate partner corporate team as a restructuring and insolvency who advises clients in the insurance, retail partner. David Pacey joins as a partner from the banking and private banking sectors. FCA. He leads the firm's Financial Services Litigation strategy nationally. Radcliffes LeBrasseur Radcliffes LeBrasseur expands its Real Estate Sidley Austin team hiring three partners who all join from Sidley Austin strengthens its Corporate Veale Wasbrough Vizards; Ping Leung, Philip Restructuring practice in London with the hire of Vickers and Hei Leung. The team has experience Linklaters managing associate Jennifer Brennan, acting for wealthy overseas individuals, who joins as a partner. Brennan advises the full investors, trust companies, and private banks on range of stakeholders across the capital all aspects of residential and commercial real structure on restructuring and finance estate portfolio. transactions.

Reed Smith Signature Litigation Reed Smith secures multiple lateral Litigation boutique firm Signature Litigation has appointments as a result of the demise of King & hired two partners: Simon Bushell and Josh Wood Mallesons in London. The firm has added Wong. Bushell was Latham & Watkins’ London seven partners to its London office, with the Litigation chair. His practice focuses on hires of partners in financial regulation, international commercial litigation and corporate, private equity and tax all from King & arbitration. Wong, who joins from DLA Piper, is a Wood Mallesons. Financial regulatory partners commercial litigator and international arbitrator Tim Dolan, Tamasin Little and Adrian Brown join and leads on matters involving Europe and alongside corporate partners Delphine Currie China. and Mark Sanders, private equity partner Laura Brunnen, and tax partner Gareth Amdor. Simmons & Simmons Simmons & Simmons has made seven partner Seddons hires this roundup: Jen Yee Chan, Cindy Seddons has hired Susan Monty as a commercial Valentine, Jonathan Mellor, Simon Ovenden, litigation partner. Monty, joins from Simons Rosali Pretorius, Helen Hagan, and David Parkes. Muirhead & Burton where she led the Financial Yee Chan, who was a partner at King & Wood Crime, Civil Fraud & Regulatory Litigation team. Mallesons, specialises in funds finance and She specialises in the resolution of complex general bank lending. Valentine, formally co- financial and regulatory disputes. head of King & Wood Mallesons’ Africa Group, focuses her practice on a wide range of Shakespeare Martineau international funds. Mellor, joining from Allen & Shakespeare Martineau has hired Winston Bell- Overy, advises underwriters and issues on Gam as a partner specialising in energy and capital markets issuances. Ovenden, a partner infrastructure finance. Bell-Gam was previously from Cleary Gottlieb & Steen Hamilton, has

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extensive experience representing corporate acting for corporates, sponsors and and sovereign issuers, as well as financial management teams. institutions, in issuances of debt and equity securities. Pretorious joins from Dentons where Wiggin she led the firm’s Non-Contentious Financial Wiggin appoints Chris Hanson as partner in its Regulatory practice in London. She specialises in Film & TV practice. Hanson was previously head market infrastructure, commodities, derivatives of DLA Piper’s IPT department. His practice and alternative investment funds. Hagan joins focuses on the film, television and video-game from Herbert Smith Freehills where she was an industries. of counsel. She advises borrowers and lenders on a broad range of lending transactions and Winckworth Sherwood debt restructurings. Parkes joins from King & Winckworth Sherwood hires three partners to its Wood Mallesons and specialises in domestic and London office in social housing finance, private international M&A. client and litigation. Ruby Giblin, previously a senior associate at Clifford Chance, joins as a Slaughter and May partner in the Social Housing Finance Team. Tim Slaughter and May has hired its first ever London Fogarty, previously a partner at RPC, joins in the lateral partner, taking Herbert Smith Freehills Real Estate Disputes team. He represents UK head of pensions Daniel Schaffer. Schaffer, house builders in development disputes. specialises in advising on all aspects of pensions Amanda Andrews joins as a partner in the law, with a particular focus on strategic advisory Private Client group. She has extensive and transactional work. knowledge and experience in all aspects of family law and especially complex children issues Squire Patton Boggs and finances. Andrews was previously a partner Squire Patton Boggs welcomes projects/energy at specialist family law firm Levison Meltzer partner Ian Wood and real estate partner John Pigott. Danahy, who both join from King & Wood Mallesons. Wood’s practice focuses on nuclear Winston & Strawn energy, waste management and U.S firm Winston & Strawn has continued decommissioning. Danahy has experience in expansion of its London office, hiring finance major real estate transactions and energy and partner Ian Borman. Borman was the Head of infrastructure projects. Finance for EMEA and the global coordinator of the Acquisition Finance Practice at King & Wood Stephenson Harwood Mallesons. He has a broad practice, covering a Stephenson Harwood has hired a trio of King & range of debt financing and structured Wood Mallesons corporate partners, including transactions. former UK private equity co-head Jonathan Pittal, corporate finance partner Warren Allan and private equity partner Gabriel Boghossian. Pittal advises private equity houses and other leading financial institutions on a wide range of corporate finance matters. Allan deals with a wide range of corporate finance matters including private fund formation, secondary transactions and leveraged buyouts. Boghossian works principally in M&A and private equity,

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