Slaughter and May is to add another senior lawyer to its pensions team in the City, this time from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Charles Magoffin, a partner at Freshfields since 2010, is joining Slaughters as a senior counsel from September. Slaughters has still only ever made one lateral hire in the City, also into its pensions […]
Norway’s Sands has suffered one of the largest mass defections in its history after six partners left to join Big Five firm Wiersholm in Trondheim. The hires bolster Wiersholm in a range of the firm’s key sectors, including marine law, renewables, technology, real estate and tax. The firm has committed to further growth over the […]
Debevoise & Plimpton is hiring from Goodwin Procter as it adds a new partner to its London investment funds team. Shawn D’Aguiar is switching to a new US firm in London eight years after joining Goodwin from King & Wood Mallesons (KWM). He was part of a four-partner team move led by then funds head Michael […]
Another partner from Milbank’s financial restructuring team is set to leave the firm, this time joining Allen & Overy ahead of its merger with Shearman & Sterling. Karen McMaster is the latest partner loss from Milbank following last month’s news of a structured finance team led by partner John Goldfinch moving to Allen & Overy, soon […]
Linklaters has lost two partners today, with Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison being the latest to swipe an M&A hire from the magic circle firm. Matthew Hearn has joined Paul Weiss in London as a partner in the corporate department. Hearn has spent just over 10 years with Linklaters, which is where he completed […]
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has hired another finance partner from Linklaters in London. The US firm has snapped up financial regulation partner Sebastian Barling, who has spent the last 12 years at the magic circle firm. He was promoted to partner in 2018. Before his time at Linklaters, Barling spent several years at […]
Kirkland & Ellis has swiped another partner from Allen & Overy, just one month ahead of the magic circle firm’s tie-up with Shearman & Sterling. Vanessa Xu is making the move to Kirkland, having spent the entirety of her 17-year career at A&O. She was made partner in 2017. A leveraged and acquisition finance partner, […]
Hill Dickinson is swiftly growing its new Birmingham office, with the addition of two more teams from Irwin Mitchell. The firm has significantly strengthened its real estate capabilities in the Midlands, adding expertise in both transactions and litigation to the five-strong corporate team it onboarded in February to launch the office. The real estate team […]
The former head of Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson’s London office – Graham White – has taken on a new role in the City after retiring in 2017. White joins McDermott Will & Emery in London as a senior partner. He had formerly run Fried Frank’s London office between 2014 and 2017. McDermott’s London […]
Forsters has hired a team from Winckworth Sherwood, including former senior partner and head of employment Jo Keddie. Joining on 2 April, Keddie will lead its employment and partnerships practice. She will move with colleagues Danielle Crawford and Daniel Parker, who will join the team as counsel and senior associate, respectively. Forsters said that the […]
Ward McKimm, Shearman & Sterling’s European and Middle East regional managing partner, is leaving the firm less than two months before its Allen & Overy tie-up goes live. A statement from Shearman and McKimm read: “Shearman & Sterling and Ward McKimm jointly confirm that, after a nearly-30 year career as a leading high-yield and leveraged […]
Paul Weiss is continuing its London office expansion, hiring another private equity partner from Clifford Chance. Oliver Marcuse is set to join the US firm, just months after former magic circle colleague Chris Sullivan made the same move. Marcuse was promoted to the firm’s partnership in 2022, having spent his career at Clifford Chance. Secondments […]
A Linklaters litigator is leaving the firm for Pallas Partners, in a major lateral hire for the disputes boutique that launched two years ago. Susana Cao Miranda is joining Pallas as a partner. Prior to joining the magic circle firm in 2017, Cao Miranda was a managing director at Goldman Sachs in London, where she […]
A member of Allen & Overy’s City finance team is set to leave the firm for Kirkland & Ellis, having joined the magic circle firm over a year ago. Capital markets specialist Marwa Elborai is making the move to Kirkland. She joined A&O in January 2023 having moved across from Shearman & Sterling after 16 […]
