Quinn Emanuel makes fresh raid on A&O, takes two City partners
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan is bolstering its international arbitration practice with a double hire from Allen & Overy (A&O), taking on global international arbitration head Stephen Jagusch and arbitration partner Anthony Sinclair.
John Quinn
Jagusch will head Quinn Emanuel’s international arbitration practice from its London office while Sinclair joins as a partner.
In a statement, managing partner John Quinn said the firm’s expansion in the international arbitration area is not over.
“We’re building a premier international arbitration practice and we see Stephen and Anthony as the centrepieces of that plan,” he said. “We’ll be adding more partner and senior level talent in other arbitration centres in the coming months.”
Ivan Marisin, managing partner of the firm’s Moscow office, said the hires would be beneficial to the firm’s Russian practice.
“It’ll be extremely beneficial to our Russian clients to have Stephen and Anthony with us,” he said. “An ever-increasing percentage of the commercial disputes involving Russian companies are governed by English law and are arbitrated in London.”
Earlier this month, Quinn Emanuel hired A&O IP and antitrust litigation partner Nadine Herrmann and a team of 10 lawyers and staff for a Hamburg launch (1 May 2012), an opening that follows the firm’s launch in Mannheim two years ago (23 February 2010), when Quinn Emanuel also turned to A&O for patent litigation partner Marcus Grosch. Grosch brought with him A&O’s entire Mannheim office (1 March 2010).
Readers' comments (5)
A "raid"? Really? | 9-May-2012 11:46 am
Strictly speaking it wasn't a raid on Allen & Overy as Stephen Jagusch and Anthony Sinclair weren't in the office at the time. They were having coffee and croissants outside at Patisserie Valerie when the Quinn Emanuel snatch squad grabbed the pair of them and bundled them off in a van.
And in case anyone's wondering I was there: I still have Jagush's shoe which he lost in the struggle.
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Anonymous | 9-May-2012 1:59 pm
All of the magic circle (other than Slaughters and perhaps Freshfields) are going to lose their best producers to better firms that don't function like discount stores / factories to survive. Its easy to say its only about the money, but that ignores that good lawyers also have large egos and would rather work in harrods than marks & spencers. An NQ would also have much better training and prospects at an american firm, where more is expected of, and attributed to, each individual lawyer rather than nameless ranks of 'legal managers'.
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Anonymous | 9-May-2012 2:00 pm
I consider this a raid equalled only by that on Entebbe.
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Anonymous | 10-May-2012 7:56 am
Anonymous may be right. A&O probably has the world's best arbitration team, but its reward package lags behind its competitors both in terms of raw numbers and in the way it is rolled out in practice.
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Anonymous | 17-Sep-2012 4:50 pm
What is the salary of someone like Jagusch at A&O and what would it be at Quinn?
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