Cravath Swaine & Moore is shifting global M&A head Richard Hall from New York to London in a bid to boost the firm’s European corporate practice, U.K. publication Legal Week reports.
Hall, who has spent his entire career at Cravath and has been a partner for over 15 years, will relocate from the firm’s Eighth Avenue headquarters to its 27-lawyer London office in February. He will replace fellow corporate partner David Mercado as head of the office, which was launched in 1973 and remains the U.S. firm’s sole international base. (Mercado, who himself relocated from New York in 2009, will remain in situ as one of five U.S.qualified partners based in the English capital. Securities specialist Philip Boeckman will continue in his role as office managing partner.)
