Law Firm Lateral Hires

DWF rebuilds in Australia with nine-partner raid on Hall & Wilcox

Hire of nine-partner team follows DWF purchasing Australian claims management business in September

Brown Rudnick expands Houston footprint with IP team hire from Bochner

Eight-strong group is led by partners Erick Robinson, Jayme Partridge and Jayne Piana

Pillsbury secures senior Taylor Wessing disputes partner in London

Laurence Lieberman led his former firm’s life sciences commercial disputes group

Davis Polk recruits Sidley partner duo to launch London restructuring practice

Arrival of Mark Knight and Jifree Cader follows partner raids on A&O Shearman and Paul Hastings earlier in 2024

A&O Shearman recruits Travers Smith incentives head

Mahesh Varia exits after nearly 27 years at top UK independent

Simpson Thacher hits Kirkland, Jones Day for M&A lawyers

Firm chair Alden Millard points to bolstering global M&A bench as a ‘priority’

Kennedys hires leading Paris arbitration partner from Hogan Lovells

Thomas Kendra brings emerging markets expertise to his new firm notably through his Africa work

Freshfields hires private credit trio from Weil in London

Paul Stewart joins as global co-head of private credit and capital solutions alongside two new partners

Skadden raids Latham for London tech transactions head

Deborah Kirk latest in string of partner departures from Latham’s City office

BCLP hires former Seattle Mayor to head firm’s US white collar practice

Ex-DoJ lawyer and Quinn Emanuel partner Jenny Durkan will be based in Seattle and Washington DC

McDermott expands private equity bench with partner hire from CMS

Healthcare deals specialist Jason Zemmel will be based in London

Linklaters secures top-flight A&O Shearman finance team in New York

A&O Shearman’s financial markets co-head David Lucking moves across with three more partners

Freshfields debt finance partner defects to Kirkland in US

HT Flanagan to work out of Dallas and New York at Kirkland, which boasts world’s largest debt finance practice

Cooley recruits Gowling’s London life sciences head

Jenny Davies joins as a partner in Cooley’s London life sciences partnering and licensing practice

Kirkland marks first structured finance hire in London

Chicago giant replenishes London ranks following raids by Paul Weiss; also hires structured credit partner from Milbank in New York

Paul Hastings adds four partner employment group in New York from Baker McKenzie

Team boosts Paul Hastings’ complex workplace litigation offering

HFW adds construction lawyer from Clifford Chance in Perth

Arrival of disputes specialist Sean Marriott continues expansion of UK firm’s global construction group

Paul Weiss raids Kirkland’s London funds team again for latest partner hire

Revathi Raghavan is fifth partner to join Paul Weiss this year in London from Kirkland’s investment funds team

O’Melveny expands in Singapore with M&A partner duo from Hogan Lovells

Stephanie Keen and Sylvia Taslim bring significant pan-Asia transactions experience

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