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 […]
We’ve just launched Partnerless, a new email specifically for associates. Sign up here for weekly career intelligence and market chatter. A dedicated secondaries team from Debevoise & Plimpton is moving across to Skadden to join its investment management group in London. Counsel Delphine Jaugey leads the team and will join as head of secondaries for Europe. […]
Kirkland & Ellis is expanding its funds team in London, by hiring a former partner of Macfarlanes. Alex Amos joins Kirkland, having resigned from Macfarlanes’ partnership at the start of 2023. Since then he has acted as a senior adviser at the firm. He was promoted to partnership in 2012. Kirkland chairman Jon Ballis said: […]
Funds-focused Euro 100 firm Arendt & Medernach has opened its first German office with the firm seeking to make in-roads into Frankfurt’s myriad financial institutions as well as the European Central Bank. The firm announced it would be opening in the German financial centre, though its new office will not offer German law capabilities. Instead […]
In a bid to build out a dedicated funds offering, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has hired a new partner to kickstart the City practice. Mary Lavelle makes the move to the magic circle firm from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. At Freshfields she becomes its global co-head of the firm’s private funds and secondaries group […]
Luxembourg-headquartered funds firm Elvinger Hoss Prussen has expanded its European presence for the first time with a new office opening. The firm has launched an outfit in Paris as it seeks opportunities amid the French capital’s growing importance to the global funds market. The new Paris office opened its doors in late July, with a […]
Welcome once again to The Passport, your guide to all of the European legal market’s most important developments. This week we turn our attentions to Travers Smith as it launches its first-ever country-specific desk; the key issue facing Pinsent Masons’ Dublin operation; and why infrastructure hires are big business across the Continent. Travers Smith’s Luxembourg […]
As the recruitment market slows ahead of the summer break, Latham & Watkins is pushing ahead with City expansion once more by hiring a funds duo from Sidley Austin. Mateja Maher joins after four years as a partner at Sidley. Prior to that Maher was general counsel of private capital adviser Campbell Lutyens. He trained […]
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 […]