Shoosmiths duo moves to Clarke Willmott
Clarke Willmott & Clarke has raided Shoosmiths, picking up corporate partner Sally Norcross-Webb and a senior associate. The pair will join Clarke Willmott’s new Stoneham Gate offices in Southampton on 1 May.
Gleiss Lutz seconds partner to Herbert Smith
Gleiss Lutz is seconding a partner to best friend Herbert Smith for the first time. Corporate partner Andreas Woelfle moved to London last week. Last year, Herbert Smith sent corporate partner Philip Talboys to Gleiss’s Frankfurt office on a two-year secondment.
Staff losses prompt Morgan Cole restructure
Morgan Cole has reconfigured its London operation after a slew of defections over the past 12 months. The office, now headed by partners Stephen Room and Leon Golstein, will now focus purely on property and property litigation services for property, energy and investment clients. It will also offer mediation and dispute resolution under partner Phillip […]
Boot camp for ex-White & Case fraudster
A former White & Case lawyer has been sent to a Buffalo boot camp after stealing money from the firm. Jennifer Hampton pleaded guilty to first degree fraud and second degree grand larceny after charging $111,913 (£63,300) of personal expenses to her corporate American Express card and for helping to defraud investors of more than […]
Linklaters swaps heads in Hong Kong
Linklaters has replaced the managing partner of its Hong Kong office with the head of its litigation and arbitration team in Asia. Marc Harvey is taking over the post from Nick Rees, who is returning to the firm’s London corporate group after five years at the helm. Harvey has been with Linklaters for over 13 […]
Ex-Nabarros boss names firm after his kids
Nabarro Nathanson’s former head of commercial IT is keeping his law firm in the family by naming it after his children. TRG Law, which launches on 4 May, is named after Paul Golding’s children Tim and Rebecca. Golding is launching the firm to focus on commercial contracts involving intellectual property and information technology. First revealed […]
EuroDisney counsel bows out to take role with construction group
EuroDisney has lost its general counsel Pascal Quint to Cegelec, the French construction and industrial services group. “I’d been general counsel for EuroDisney for eight years and felt that it was time to move on. The offer from Cegelec was very exciting,” Quint told The Lawyer. Part of Quint’s remit is to review how Cegelec […]
Latham makes further raid on Skadden
Latham & Watkins is continuing its hiring spree of lawyers from Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom by taking on its fourth partner in as many weeks. John Mendez, formerly the head of Skadden’s West Coast banking and institutional investing practice, is moving to Latham’s Los Angeles office. His arrival comes after Latham scored a […]
Eugenes appoints first ever head for competition group
Dublin-based Eugene F Collins has taken on its first competition partner. David Dillon, who practised as a senior associate at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher and Squire Sanders & Dempsey in Brussels, is joining Eugenes as head of competition. During the past 10 years, Dillon has advised multinationals from a wide range of economic sectors on […]
L’Estrange corporate head ups sticks to client Almac Sciences
The head of Belfast firm L’Estrange & Brett’s market-leading corporate team John Irvine is set to leave the firm for key client Almac Sciences in the autumn. Irvine has been appointed executive director of Almac, which has no legal department, and will continue at L’Estrange as a consultant.L’Estrange managing partner Richard Gray said he hoped […]
Tughans sets up corporate base in Derry
Tughans is set to become the first large corporate law firm to open an office in Northern Ireland’s second city Derry. Corporate partner Killian Margey joined Tughans from Southern Irish best friend William Fry last October with a view to opening the new office, which will be launched officially on 1 May. “Specialist corporate legal […]
Slaughters takes up first KPN instruction
Slaughter and May has scooped its first ever instruction from KPN, the Dutch telecoms giant, The Lawyer can reveal. The firm beat KPN’s longstanding adviser Allen & Overy (A&O) to win a mandate to advise the company on the UK aspects of its failed £10bn bid for mmO2, the mobile phone group that was spun […]