Lateral Partner Moves in London

Lateral

Partner

Moves

London

November - December 2016

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Addleshaw Goddard Boodle Hatfield Addleshaw Goddard strengthens its Real Estate Boodle Hatfield boosts its construction practice offering with the hire of partners William Boss, with the recruitment of John Wevill, who joins Simon Tager and Michael Scott from King & from Clarkslegal. Wevill’s practice focuses on Wood Mallesons together with real estate advising employers, funders, insurers, Managing Associate Luke Harvey who joins as consultants and contractors on all areas of partner. Boss, who previously served as construction law. managing partner at KWM, focuses his practice on advising key stakeholders in large-scale Clyde & Co development projects. Tager’s practice is Clyde & Co welcomes litigation partner Chris centred on investment sales and purchases, Pratts from Kennedys. Pratts specialises in lettings and development projects. Scott advises insurance and reinsurance litigation, with a property companies and investors on business particular focus on marine cargo. and retail development issues, including site acquisition and development finance. Also, Covington & Burling Addleshaws welcomes equity incentives and Litigation partners Craig Pollack and Louise employee tax specialist Jonathan Fletcher- Freeman join from King & Wood Mallesons. Rogers who joins as head of Employee Incentives Pollack, who was Head of Litigation at KWM, from Tax and Employment boutique, Abbiss works for clients in the financial services sector Cadres. on a range of disputes including commercial litigation, international arbitration and banking Akin Gump disputes. Freeman’s practice focuses on financial Jasper Helder, former chair of Baker & markets disputes and advising on questions of McKenzie’s EMEA International Trade practice jurisdiction and enforcement. group joins Akin Gump. With extensive experience in trade policy and European Crowell & Moring regulation, Helder’s arrival at the London office Senior associate Simon Evers leaves Davis Polk marks a significant development for Akin to join Crowell & Moring’s Corporate Group as a Gump’s offering in Europe. partner. Evers advises US and European companies on a range of corporate issues, and Arnold & Porter has significant expertise in setting up US firm Arnold & Porter welcomes three operational joint ventures in transportation and partners this round-up. IP partner Rob Bratby, energy companies. served as Olswang’s Asia managing partner for 5 years before returning to the London office Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colte & Mosle earlier this year. White Collar Crime specialist Curtis, Mallet-Prevost welcomes barrister Sean Curran, joins from Guney Clark & Ryan. He Thomas Williams to its Commercial Litigation specialises in corporate crime, and is particularly and Arbitration group. Joining from Stewarts experienced in defending against claims of fraud, Law, Williams acts for financial institutions and bribery and corruption. Finally, Patricio Grané multinational corporations in a range of complex joins the International Arbitration team from arbitrations. Volterra Fietta. Grané specialises in international law and is particularly experienced in investor- D Young & Co state arbitrations. Patent litigator Anthony Craggs leaves his position as Director at Gowlings to become a partner in IP at specialist firm D Young & Co.

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DAC Beachcroft DWF DAC Beachcroft fortifies its insurance offering DWF bolsters its professional indemnity and with the hire of four Clyde & Co partners; David commercial insurance practice with the hire of Knapp, John Goodman, Nigel Adams and Simon Gildener from Bond Dickinson. Gildener Danielle Singer. Adams and Knapp both focus on advises clients in the financial services sector on defending personal injury claims brought against claims involving liability, insurance and private and public sector organisations. reinsurance coverage. Goodman deals with a range of insurance- related matters, including inquests, defamations Euclid Law and health and safety prosecutions. European Competition boutique Euclid Law hires Recommended by Chambers & Partners for her Clifford Chance senior associate Marie Leppard. work in defendant personal injury, Singer Specialising in French, UK and EU competition advises insurers on public, motor and employers’ investigations and merger notifications, Leppard liability. joins the firm as partner.

Dechert Fieldfisher Dechert continues to grow its London practice Fieldfisher welcomes restructuring partner with the double hire of Ross Allardice and John Richard Todd to its finance team. Todd, who Markland. Allardice, who joins from White & joins from Mayer Brown, deals with structured Case, holds a very broad private equity practice, finance transactions and particularly focuses on which involves advising parties from a range of multi-jurisdictional ABCP conduit-funded sectors on all aspects of leveraged M&A, transactions. Eversheds’ principal associate restructuring matters and portfolio companies. Yohanna Weber joins Fieldfisher’s Planning & Finance practitioner Markland joins from Environment team as partner. Weber focuses Kirkland & Ellis, where he served as Counsel. her practice on advising clients as to the consenting of development and infrastructure Dentons projects. Leading patents attorney, Dr Justin Hill, joins Dentons as head of Patent Prosecution and Forsters Opposition Practices. Hill’s practice covers a Wedlake Bell’s family law associate Rosie range of IP-related issues, and focuses on the Schumm joins Forsters as partner. Schumm preparation and prosecution of various forms of advises high-net-worth clients on questions of IP rights. He joins from Olswang where he served family law concerning trusts, offshore assets and as head of Patents. family businesses.

DLA Piper Goodwin Procter This round-up sees DLA Piper hire six real estate Tax partner Laura Charkin and funds partners partners from King & Wood Mallesons. KWM’s Ajay Pathak, Ed Hall, Shawn D’Aguiar and Patrick Head of Real Estate, William Naunton, George Deasy join Goodwin Procter from King & Wood Burrha and Jeremy Brooks all specialise in Mallesons. Goodwin Procter also welcomes corporate real estate, while Cornelius Medvei, Shearman & Sterling duo Sarah Priestley and Bryan Pickup and Ed Page advise clients on Mark Soundy, and former co-head of investment commercial property transactions and funds at KWM, Michael Halford. Specialising in development projects. private equity and investment fund structuring, Halford has developed his own niche in representing the major houses on their direct

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funds and funds of funds. Having joined defending clients in a range of court Shearman together in 2013, private equity proceedings, mediations and adjudications. specialist Priestley and corporate tax partner Soundy worked together to launch the firm’s Kingsley Napley International Private Equity practice. Litigation lawyer Sue Thackeray leaves Howard Kennedy to join Kingsley Napley as head of Greenberg Traurig Commercial Litigation. Thackeray advises US firm Greenberg Traurig strengthens its corporates on cross-jurisdictional fraud matters, London offering with the hire of six partners and particularly focuses on bribery, corruption, from King & Wood Mallesons in: real estate, advance fee fraud schemes, cybercrime and corporate, private equity real estate, funds and financial services litigation. Regulatory specialist tax. KWM’s head of Corporate Real Estate Iain Miller, who has acted for the SRA for over Michael Goldberg joins alongside private equity 20 years, joins from Bevan Brittan. real estate star Steven Cowins, private equity fund specialist Marc Snell and corporate M&A Kirkland & Ellis partner David Fitzgerald. In addition to the four Finance specialist Jonathan Birks joins Kirkland & corporate partners, versatile tax specialist Clive Ellis from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. The Jones and commercial real estate partner firm’s fourth magic circle lateral hire this year, Matthew Priday, who focuses his practice on Birks’s practice focuses on real estate finance investment and development projects, join the and private equity. firm. Latham & Watkins Harbottle & Lewis Latham & Watkins’ finance team welcomes This roundup sees Harbottle & Lewis nab family global energy co-head John Balsdon from partners Mark Irving, Nicholas Westley and Herbert Smith Freehills. Balsdon deals in energy Catherine Bedford from Lee & Thompson. Irving finance, with a particular focus on the oil and gas specialises in financial and children cases, and sector. particularly those with an international dimension. Westley specialises in matrimonial Mayer Brown finance and Bedford, who served as head of Jay Doraisamy moves to Mayer Brown’s family at Lee & Thompson, specializes in divorce pensions team from Dentons. Doraisamy has and separation. extensive experience advising both employers and trustees on a variety of pensions issues, Ince & Co such as funding, regulatory issues and benefit Ince & Co welcomes employment partner design. Rebecca Thornley-Gibson from ASB Law, where she served as head of Travel. Joining the Macfarlanes Business and Finance Group, Thornley-Gibson Macfarlanes welcomes King & Wood Mallesons specialises in advising employers within the Competition partners Stephen Kon, Christoph travel and aviation sectors. Humpe, Cameron Firth and Tom Usher. Having served as senior partner at KWM, Kon joins the Kennedys competition team as a consultant. Humpe, Firth Senior associate Christopher Butler joins and Usher all hold very broad practices, dealing Kennedys’ Insurance team as partner. Joining in both contentious and non-contentious from RPC, Butler specialises in construction and matters of competition law. professional risk disputes and has experience

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Osborne Clarke Reed Smith Litigation partner Katharine Vickery joins King & Woods Mallesons financial regulation Osborne Clarke from Eversheds. Vickery partner David Calligan joins Reed Smith. David specialises in global compliance systems and advises clients in the financial services sector on advises clients on how to meet the global compliance and regulatory matters specialises in markets’ many regulatory requirements. assisting FX and CFD trading firms.

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe Shakespeare Martineau Corporate partner Ylan Steiner joins Orrick from National firm Shakespeare Martineau makes two King & Wood Mallesons, where he served as notable hires this roundup. David Vaughan, who head of Venture Capital. Steiner advises on specialises in complex property, construction growth and venture financings, investment and commercial disputes, joins from BLM, where decisions and portfolio transactions. he served as Head of Commercial Litigation. Joining from Bond Dickinson, IP partner Kim Penningtons Manches Walker specialises in IP advisory work and the Penningtons Manches has hired Olswang’s head drafting and negotiation of commercial of Construction Francis Ho. Ho focuses his contracts. practice on green construction projects, construction insolvency and EPC contracts. Sidley Austin The hire of Yen Sum from Linklaters fortifies Pitmans Sidley Austins’ Corporate Restructuring and Private client partner Andrew Murray joins Bankruptcy offering. Having spent three years in- Pitmans from Bishop & Sidwell. Previously the house at Barclays, Sum specialises in structuring, head of Trusts, Taxes and Estates, Murray’s transaction management and capital market practice is focused on powers of attorney, and roles in leveraged buy-out financings. Sidleys probate and tax planning for family offices. also strengthens its US Law practice through the hires of Cravath Swaine & Moore’s European Proskauer Rose Counsel, Alan Grinceri and Paul Hastings’ Proskauer Rose enhances its London offering associate Noel Hughes. New York qualified with the hire of tax specialist Stephen Pevsner Grinceri advises issuers and underwriters on from King & Wood Mallesons. Although his focus questions of U.S. and European corporate law. is on issues arising from UK and international Hughes focuses on cross-border leveraged M&A transactions, Pevsner advises on matters finance transactions, and particularly specialises of both corporate and individual tax. in high-yield bond financings.

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan Simpson Thacher & Bartlett US firm Quinn Emanuel welcomes Addleshaw Simpson Thacher welcomes corporate partner Goddard’s head of civil fraud Mark Hastings. and head of Freshfields’ TMT and M&A teams, Focussing on complex fraud and trust litigations, Ben Spiers. Specialising in mergers within the Hastings has served as lead partner in many of TMT sector, Spiers has experience advising many the most significant cases heard before the FTSE 100 technology companies. English courts, acting for notable figures such as Boris Berezovsky and His Majesty King Abdullah Squire Patton Boggs of Jordan. Energy partner Neil Upton departs King & Woods Mallesons with a team of four lawyers to join Squire Patton Boggs. Upton advises banks,

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utilities and other financial institutions on all The Specialist Partner Team aspects of the energy business, including the development and financing of projects, regulatory matters and privatization.

TLT Jason Juden leaves King & Wood Mallesons to Scott Gibson become head of Property Litigation at TMT. Director Juden possesses a range of experience across traditional questions of property litigation. [email protected]

Wedlake Bell Julia Jackson is hired as head of Immigration & Nationality at Wedlake Bell. Jackson, who leaves her post as Principal of Julia Jackson Solicitors, Sloane Poulton advises businesses and executives on all matters Director relating to immigration and nationality. [email protected]

White & Case Marc Israel is welcomed to White & Case’s At Edwards Gibson the specialist partner team Competition/Anti-Trust team. He departs provides: Macfarlanes, where, as head of the competition Confidential partner representation and team, he worked on a range of high-profile UK consultation cases involving mergers, cartels and antitrust A search service flexible to our client’s litigation. requirements Advice on team moves Withers Corporate finance partner Azlinda Arriffin- Based in the heart of the City of London, Edwards Boormand joins Withers from Olswang. Having Gibson is a dedicated legal recruitment consultancy kicked off her career in Malaysia, Ariffin- specialising in private practice and associate hires, Boromand mainly advises southeast Asian clients team moves and in-house lawyer recruitment. We on fundraising and investment opportunities in pride ourselves on the depth and clarity of Europe and the United States. information we provide and have an unrivalled knowledge of the markets in which we work. Wiggin Alan Owens, who specialises in litigation and arbitration within the TMT sector, departs DWF, where he served as head of TMT, to join Wiggin. Please contact us on: 020 7153 4903

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