Weil Gotshal & Manges has recruited Allen & Overy’s (A&O’s) Paris leveraged finance head, Jonathan Nabarro. Nabarro, who joined A&O in 2004 from Ashurst, will head up Weil Gotshal’s French banking and finance practice with Emmanuel Ringeval.

The hire follows the New York heavyweight’s recent addition of four lawyers to its restructuring team in Paris, including Jean-Dominique Daudier de Cassini, who joined as a partner from Willkie Farr & Gallagher.