Moves

Forsters swipes former Winckworth senior partner and team

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 […]

Shearman’s EMEA head to leave firm

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 […]

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Clifford Chance PE partner exits for Paul Weiss

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 […]

Linklaters litigator departs for Pallas

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 […]

Kirkland set to hire A&O finance partner

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 […]

Delphine Jaugey, Skadden team

Skadden hires funds trio from Debevoise

  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. […]

Ashurst

Ashurst snaps up Dechert white collar crime partner

Ashurst has hired a white collar crime and investigations partner from Dechert, as the firm builds out its disputes and investigations offering as part of its firmwide strategy.  Making the move is Judith Seddon, who has been at Dechert for two years and was formerly at Ropes & Gray and Clifford Chance. She specialises in […]

Kirkland secures ESG hire from HSF

HSF’s head of ESG for the UK, EMEA and US regions has left the firm after 12 years, joining Kirkland & Ellis as a partner. Rebecca Perlman qualified into corporate with HSF in 2014, making partner in 2022. She had been promoted to co-head of HSF’s sustainable and impact investment team in 2017, becoming its […]

New York

Freshfields doubles down on PE with Latham hires

Two Latham & Watkins partners are joining Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s New York office, tasked with building out the magic circle firm’s transactional private equity offering. Neal Reenan and Ian Bushner are the two partners making the move from Latham to Freshfields. While Freshfields has been working on private equity deals for its European and US […]

Pinsents’ City office head leaves for DLA Piper

Pinsent Masons’ head of its London office is leaving after four years to join DLA Piper’s London corporate crime and investigations (CCI) team. Before joining Pinsents at the beginning of 2020, Sackey spent almost 13 years at HMRC in senior positions including deputy director of offshore, corporate, and wealthy investigations, and deputy director of criminal […]

Energy trio move across to DLA Piper

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 […]

Linklaters set to lose leveraged finance co-head to Gibson Dunn

The latest in an ongoing series of partner losses for the magic circle firm, Linklaters’ co-head of leveraged finance is poised to move to Gibson Dunn & Crutcher. David Irvine is set to join the US firm’s London team just three years after returning to Linklaters.  Irvine had spent the first 14 years of his […]

Gemma Barrett

Another hire for A&O: IP partner joins firm

Allen & Overy is once again boosting its ranks before its merger with Shearman & Sterling, hiring a new partner to its IP team from Bristows. Gemma Barrett is joining A&O after 17 years at Bristows, where she made partner at the end of 2017. Barrett handles cross-border patent litigation matters within Europe, India and […]

EY energy duo set to join Hunton Andrews Kurth

Two energy partners from EY Law are set to join a US firm’s London office. The Lawyer understands that Charles Morrison and Dimitri Papaefstatiou are leaving for Hunton Andrews Kurth after three years at the Big Four firm. Morrison was a solicitor for 15 years at DLA Piper before joining EY Law as partner in […]