Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson has hired Monica Thurmond, a finance partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, to its finance team in New York, the firm said Tuesday.

For nearly 13 years, Thurmond had been at Paul Weiss, where she was a member of the capital markets and finance groups and a former deputy chair of the corporate department. She works with private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies on leveraged finance transactions, Fried Frank said.