The old saying goes that necessity is the mother of invention, and this has perhaps never been better demonstrated than throughout 2020. ‘Necessity’ here is the lockdown resulting from the coronavirus pandemic. ‘Invention’ is demonstrated by the rapid pace with which we have all had to pivot our approach to day-to-day business, strategy and technology in response to the pandemic.
International law firm Paul Hastings, in collaboration with The Lawyer, conducted research seeking to determine trends in the rapidly evolving world of transatlantic acquisition finance. Insights for the project were gained through interviews and two roundtable discussions involving partners, heads of leveraged finance, in-house legal counsel and deal execution professionals from a diverse range of financial services, PPLs and corporate organisations. Download now to discover the findings’
Name: Mei Lian Organisation: Paul Hastings Role: Partner, co-chair of London office Based: London Trained at: Linklaters Year qualified: 2000 What’s your most vivid memory from being a trainee? Being called “the most stupid trainee from the London office”. It really taught me a lot about resilience, and also, looking back, I learnt that it’s never really about you. Tell us about a sliding doors moment when your career could have gone in an entirely different direction? When I was […]
Hg Capital has hired its new general counsel from Paul Hastings, ahead of the departure of longstanding legal chief Andrew Jessop. Samantha McGonigle is to take on the top legal job at Hg, having joined Paul Hastings less than a year ago. A member of its private equity group, McGonigle started her career at Lovells, before moving to Weil Gotshal & Manges. She left Weil in 2019 to co-found Farview Equity, a growth fund for European technology companies. Her move […]
Hiring from Paul Hastings and Brown Rudnick, DLA Piper has expanded its energy and infrastructure group with three new partners. Paul Hastings duo Steven Bryan and Derwin Jenkinson join DLA Piper advising on corporate, and finance, projects and restructuring matters, respectively. They are joined by Brown Rudnick corporate partner Paul Doris, who arrives at the firm next week. Bryan is a former Hogan Lovells partner, who switched across to Paul Hastings in 2019. Jenkinson joined the US firm a year […]
Paul Hastings has hired two disputes partners from Latham & Watkins, including its London head of litigation. Oliver Browne, who has been co-chair of Latham’s London litigation practice since 2018, and Stuart Alford KC, former head of banking fraud at the Serious Fraud Office, are set to join Paul Hastings. Browne leaves Latham after 18 years, having joined as an associate from Allen & Overy in 2005. His practice primarily focuses on complex commercial arbitration and litigation, with clients including […]
Paul Hastings’ restructuring and insolvency partner David Ereira has moved across to Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan. Ereira joins Quinn having also been a partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Linklaters. He worked with Quinn on disputes arising from the NMC administration, a hospital operator that collapsed in 2020. He commonly represents debtors, creditors, investors and governments in significant restructurings, including advising the administrators of Lehman Brothers in the largest bankruptcy in history. The news comes after a spree of […]
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