Paul Hastings has taken on the UK head of Dentons’ private funds practice, the latest lateral joiner for the US firm’s London office. Paul Hastings has hired investment funds lawyer Ted Craig, who spent about two years at Dentons. He previously spent more than five years at funds-focused outfit MJ Hudson; he was also a […]
K&L Gates has merged with Luxembourg boutique Volckrick & Associates, adding the country as its eighth location in Europe. Through the combination, a three-lawyer team of Volckrick & Associates has joined K&L Gates. Led by partner Mathieu Volckrick, the team focuses strongly on asset management, investment funds, real estate and private equity. Prior to setting […]
Kirkland & Ellis has hired a funds lawyer from Willkie Farr & Gallagher, in a practice area-first for the firm’s French operations. Willkie associate Raphaël Bloch is joining Kirkland as a partner in Paris. He has been at Willkie for over four years, joining the Paris team from King & Wood Mallesons and having trained […]
Kirkland & Ellis has boosted its London investment funds group with the hire of a new partner from Goodwin. Alan Skerritt, an associate at Goodwin who trained at Clifford Chance, will join Kirkland as a partner. His hire closely follows that of Macfarlanes senior associate Ed Prestwich, a lawyer who is understood to have been […]
Debevoise & Plimpton has promoted a London lawyer to partner out of a total of nine worldwide, after the City was left out of its promotions round last year. Matthew Dickman, who sits within Debevoise’s funds and investment management group and has now ascended to the partnership, is a former Kirkland & Ellis partner who returned […]
Squire Patton Boggs (SPB) has brought in a Paul Hastings lawyer to kickstart a City funds practice, while also replenishing its real estate practice with a Gowling WLG team. The practice will focus on real estate funds, private equity funds and pensions funds. Paul Hastings associate Steven Ward is joining as partner, having first arrived […]
Herbert Smith Freehills’ (HSF) former global head of corporate has moved to investment fund BlackRock, where he is taking up a managing director role. Scott Cochrane is now head of public and private funds (legal) across BlackRock’s presence in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. This brings an end to a 25-year career at HSF, […]
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Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft has opened its doors in the Republic of Ireland, giving the firm a greater presence in the European Union. London is the firm’s sole European office, having called time on its Brussels operations in the financial year 2019/20. The firm secured premises in Dublin’s Fitzwilliam Place at the start of February, […]
Mishcon de Reya’s funds and financial services head Daniel Greenaway has moved to K&L Gates. Following a year-long lateral hiring hiatus in London, K&L Gates has hired Greenaway along with TLT investigations partner Michael Ruck. They are the second and third partners to join this month, following the addition of energy disputes partner Ben Holland […]
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has added a funds partner to its London office, a day after announcing the hire of Blackstone’s EMEA general counsel Geoffrey Bailhache. The US firm has taken on Kirkland & Ellis’ James Board, a member of its funds practice. He joined as a partner in 2017 from Ropes & Gray, where […]
Allen & Overy has hired O’Melveny & Myers’ Hong Kong managing partner James Ford, in a bid to grow its investment funds practice in Asia. Ford left O’Melveny after a 16-year stint, and was most recently the US firm’s global head of its investment funds practice and Hong Kong managing partner. His practice focuses on […]