Lateral Partner Moves in London

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Addleshaw Goddard Clarke Willmott Michelle de Kluyver has joined the Litigation team Stuart Wilson has joined the Construction team at at Addleshaw Goddard from Allen & Overy, Clarke Willmott from Trowers & Hamlins. Wilson where she was counsel. De Kluvyer specialises in specialises in non-contentious construction corporate crime and investigations. matters.

Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton US firm Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer has hired Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton has made a rare competition lawyer John Schmidt from Shepherd partner hire, with litigation lawyer James Norris- & Wedderburn. Schmidt will focus on the life Jones joining the firm from Herbert Smith sciences, consumer goods, finance, and Freehills. Norris-Jones’s expertise includes infrastructure sectors. banking disputes, commercial contract disputes, and disputes relating to fraud and insolvency. Bird & Bird Bird & Bird has welcomed hotels and hospitality Clyde & Co specialist Karen Friebe who joins from Berwin Insurance duo Jennette Newman and Jonathan Leighton Paisner, where she headed the Hotels Edwards, and regulatory and financial crime group. Friebe specialises in the acquisition, barrister Charles Kuhn have joined Clyde & Co development, disposal, and management of from BLM and Hickman & Rose respectively. property in the hospitality and leisure sector. Newman headed the London office at her former firm and specialises in ADR in relation to Blake Morgan catastrophic injury and major loss claims. Meera Jansen has joined Blake Morgan from Edwards advises insurance companies and large Brecher. Jansen is a finance lawyer with expertise corporates on contentious and non-contentious in cross-border transactions and all aspects of matters. Kuhn joins the Regulatory and insolvency and restructuring. Investigations group.

Bracewell CMS Cameron McKenna US energy specialist Bracewell has launched its CMS Cameron McKenna has welcomed Neil London Dispute Resolution practice, hiring Hamilton from Jones Day and Tristan Hall from Damian Watkin and John Gilbert from the disbanding US firm Sedgwick. Hamilton joins McDermott Will & Emery and K&L Gates the Capital Markets and Derivatives team, respectively. Both Watkin and Gilbert specialise bringing expertise in securitisation and structured in litigation and arbitration in the energy sector. finance. Hall advises on the management and resolution of complex insurance claims, Browne Jacobson Browne Jacobson has hired former BLM clinical specialising in financial, professional, and cyber negligence partner Matthew Trinder into its risks. Health Advisory and Litigation practice. Collyer Bristow Collyer Bristow has appointed Nigel Brahams to

its Corporate and Commercial team. Formerly at Fox Williams, Brahams has experience in fintech and financial services regulation.

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DAC Beachcroft Fladgate A quartet of partner hires for DAC Beachcroft: Fladgate has welcomed Kelly Whiter as a partner. Two insurance partners - Mark Kendall and She joins from PwC, where she was a solicitor and Duncan Strachan - from the soon to be defunct head of the private client immigration team. US law firm Sedgwick - as well as Tim Ryan from Whiter specialises in advising high-net-worth Memery Crystal and former Clifford Chance individuals relocating to the UK. senior associate David Sims. Kendall’s practice includes policy coverage and international Gibson Dunn & Crutcher dispute management. Strachan advises clients on Gibson Dunn & Crutcher has hired a trio of litigation defence and coverage issues. The duo partners: Sacha Harber-Kelly, a former both have experience in the Latin American prosecutor at the Serious Fraud Office, and Sandy market with Kendall having led Sedgwick’s Latin Bhogal and Jeremy Kenley, both former practice American group since 2014. Ryan was head of heads at Mayer Brown. Harber-Kelly specialises in commercial, media and technology at his former white-collar crime, including compliance, firm and will lead the Technology practice at DAC. investigations and enforcement. Bhogal headed He advises on technology, fintech, cyber security, tax at his former firm and advises on transactional and digital media. Sims joins the Employment and corporate tax matters. Kenley co-headed the Pensions group, specialising in employment global Corporate and Securities practice as well as litigation and advisory work. leading the Private Equity Real Estate practice. He advises on a range of corporate matters, with a Doyle Clayton particular focus on real estate private equity. Employment boutique Doyle Clayton has welcomed Liz Barton as their new head of Goodwin Procter corporate. Prior to joining the firm Barton was a Goodwin has welcomed Markus Bauman, legal director at Cripps, and she specialises in formerly at King & Spalding, into the firm’s corporate and commercial work for private Technology and Life Sciences practices. Bauman companies and organisations entering the UK. specialises in corporate finance matters including equity and debt offerings and M&A. ebl miller rosenfalck Philip Henson has been appointed head of Hodge Jones & Allen employment at ebl miller rosenfalck, prior to this Hodge Jones & Allen has appointed commercial appointment Henson led the Employment team litigator Claire Kitchen to its Dispute Resolution at DKLM. He advises employers, executives and team. She joins the firm as a partner and was directors in all aspects of employment law, as previously a senior associate at Fletcher Day. well as handling litigation matters. Irwin Mitchell Fieldfisher Claire-Marie Cornford has joined Irwin Mitchell Fieldfisher has hired commercial lawyer Simon from Mishcon de Reya where she was a managing Rendell from Osborne Clarke. Rendell provides associate. Cornford specialises in domestic and corporate and commercial advice to digital international trust, estate and succession business clients. disputes and will head up the Wills, Trusts and Estates Disputes team.

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Katten Muchin Rosenman co-managing partner in what is reportedly one of Polly Sprenger, formerly of counsel at Eversheds the most expensive ever lateral hires in the City. Sutherland, has joined Katten Muchin Rosenman as a partner. Sprenger’s hire forms the basis for KPMG the new Contentious Financial Services and KPMG has hired two partners into its legal services team: corporate M&A and White Collar, Investigations and Compliance team in London. Her practice focuses on reorganisations partner Richard Lewis joins from corporate crime and internal investigations. Eversheds Sutherland to head up the London Corporate team and tax partner Matthew Kemp Little Herrington joins from US firm McDermott Will & Jacob Ghanty has joined Kemp Little and will lead Emery. the Financial Regulatory team. Ghanty focuses on payments law and regulation, and he joins from Mishcon de Reya K&L Gates. Ben Giaretta has joined Mishcon de Reya from Ashurst. Giaretta specialises in commercial Kennedys arbitration and in the energy & resources, Kennedys has hired a trio of insurance lawyers construction, engineering and infrastructure from Mayer Brown: Ingrid Hobbs, Andy Westlake, sectors. and former senior associate Tim McCaw who joins as a partner. Hobbs advises on a breadth of Moore Blatch Moore Blatch has welcomed both Manmohan coverage and defence disputes. Westlake and McCaw specialise in advising political risk and Singh, a former DWF director, and Richard trade credit insurers. McCaw also defends Hughes, a senior associate from Boodle Hatfield, as partners. Singh specialises in international professional negligence claims. corporate and transactional matters, and Hughes Keoghs specialises in commercial property and land Keoghs has hired marine insurance lawyers: development. Daniel Crockford and Alex Penberthy, both of whom were formerly consultant solicitors at Norton Rose Fulbright Pamela Reddy joins Norton Rose Fulbright’s Keystone Law. Crockford specialises in yachts and superyachts, and Penberthy’s practice focuses on Corporate and White-collar Crime team from cross-border marine litigation. West End firm Simons Muirhead & Burton. Reddy practices in criminal defence, specialising in Kingsley Napley business and white-collar crime. Kingsley Napley has appointed Anita Gill to its Private Client team, and she joins from Charles Paul Hastings Russell Speechlys. Gill specialises in advising high- Paul Hastings has hired restructuring lawyer net-worth individuals and offshore companies. David Manson from White & Case. Manson advises on all aspects of domestic and cross- Kirkland & Ellis border restructuring and insolvency matters. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer private equity star David Higgins joins Kirkland & Ellis as London

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Rosenblatt Solicitors of e-commerce matters, and will split his time Ajit Mishra has been appointed as head of the between the London and Manchester offices. India practice at Rosenblatt Solicitors. Formerly co-head of Pennington Manches’ India team, Watson Farley & Williams Mishra is a dual-qualified corporate lawyer in Watson Farley & Williams has welcomed former both India and England & Wales, specialising in Ropes & Gray litigator Thomas Ross into its cross-border foreign direct investment. Disputes practice. Ross specialises in financial disputes and white-collar crime. Shakespeare Martineau Shakespeare Martineau has hired Catherine Moss Wedlake Bell from Winckworth Sherwood and Michael Wedlake Bell has hired former senior solicitor Mulligan from litigation boutique Grosvenor Law. Adam Lynch as a partner. Previously at Maclay, Moss joins the firm’s Corporate group and Murray & Spens, Lynch joins the Corporate & specialises in corporate finance, M&A and Financial Services team where he will specialise in reorganisations. Insolvency and commercial M&A, investment, and public company work. litigation lawyer Mulligan, specialises in all Weightmans aspects of corporate recovery, bankruptcy, fraud, Andrew Cromby joins Weightmans as head of the asset recovery, and enforcement. London Commercial Litigation team. Formerly at Shepherd & Wedderburn Bracher Rawlins, Cromby is experienced in Shepherd & Wedderburn has welcomed Philip commercial litigation and dispute resolution, Sewell from Maclay, Murray & Spens to the with particular expertise in partnership disputes. Commercial Disputes and Regulation division. Weil Gotshal & Manges Sewell provides advice on a wide range of Weil Gotshal & Manges has bolstered its Real contentious commercial matters. Assets Team with the addition of Berwin Leighton Sidley Austin Paisner Corporate Real Estate partner Anthea Sidley Austin has bolstered its Private Equity team Bamford. Bamford advises investors in the office, with the hire of corporate duo Till Lefranc and hotels, retail, and logistics sectors. Wim De Vlieger, both of whom join the firm as White & Case partners. Prior to their appointment, they were Dominic Ross has joined the Corporate team at both counsel at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. De White & Case from Ashurst. Ross specialises in Vlieger and Lefranc advise clients across Europe corporate finance and M&A transactions on a range of transactions, with a particular focus involving listed and private corporate clients. on private equity, M&A and capital markets.

Squire Patton Boggs Kerry Lee joins Squire Patton Boggs as a partner from Walgreens Boots Alliance, where he headed the Intellectual Property group. Lee has experience in both contentious and non- contentious intellectual property and a plethora

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