The majority of trainees left stranded ahead of the winding down of MJ Hudson’s legal arm have found new homes. So far, trainees have been split up among three firms: one to DLA Piper, two to Baker McKenzie, and an additional trainee to Haynes & Boone. Tenzin Woden joins an 11-strong team of partners and […]
Texas-headquartered law firm Haynes & Boone has hired 11 London and Belfast-based professionals from collapsed boutique funds firm MJ Hudson. It has picked up three partners, Karma Samdup who joins as head of private funds and venture based in London, as well as venture capital partners Andrew Pannell and Ronan McCann. The partners are taking […]
City law firms have begun to benefit from the collapse of boutique funds firm MJ Hudson, snapping up partners before the legal division wraps up for good. Andrew Mills has joined Burges Salmon as a partner in the corporate and M&A team. He had spent nearly 10 years at MJ Hudson, where he was a […]
Total revenue in Proskauer’s City office rose by 6 per cent in 2022, with its work for the firm’s core asset manager client base taking turnover from last year’s peak of $124.5m to a new record of $132.2m. The rise is in line with a similar 6.1 per cent increase globally, with Proskauer’s firmwide revenue […]
The head of Travers Smith’s investment funds group has left the firm for Dechert. Sam Kay has been a partner at Travers since 2008, joining the firm as a trainee a decade before. He specialises in fund formation work for a wide range of private funds and asset management clients, predominantly in the private equity, […]
Asset management consultant MJ Hudson is terminating the training contracts of its 12 trainee solicitors, The Lawyer has learnt, amid concerns over its financial viability. The Lawyer understands that the terminations, which will be effective as of the end of this month, include trainees at various stages of their contracts. Company concerns have been brewing […]
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has boosted its funds team with two partners from Travers Smith. Ed Ford and Sacha Gofton-Salmond are joining Simpson Thacher’s London office, focused on secondaries transactions. Ford qualified at Travers in 2013, making partner in 2021, while Gofton-Salmond’s trajectory is very similar. She made partner in 2022, having qualified in 2010. […]
Goodwin Procter has snapped up a private equity and investment funds partner from Kirkland & Ellis. Jacqueline Eaves has spent nearly four years as a partner at the US firm, where she focused on advising private investment funds on a range of complex business transactions in the secondary market. Before joining Kirkland, Eaves spent four […]
Private equity house Nordic Capital closed its largest-ever fund last month, with the firm’s recent expansion leading to a doubling in headcount of its legal team and support from the likes of Kirkland & Ellis and White & Case. The fund hit its high cap of €9bn and exceeded internal expectations about what could be […]
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Tom O’Neill has joined infrastructure investment firm Basalt Infrastructure Partners as its new general counsel. O’Neill trained as a solicitor at Slaughter and May, qualifying into corporate and M&A. He spent over six years at the firm before moving in-house to private equity business Pollen Street Capital, where he worked his way up to legal […]
Kirkland & Ellis has hired its second funds partner this week, this time from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner. Louisa Cobbe has joined the US firm’s London office. She trained at legacy BLP, qualifying in 2010. She made partner at the newly-merged firm in 2019. She advises on the structuring, capital raising and ongoing operation of […]