Private equity firm Goldfinch Partners, which is acquiring Western Union’s cross-border business payments company in a $910 million deal, has lured mergers and acquisitions guru Matthew Herman away from Big Law to serve as general counsel. 

Herman, who most recently served as U.S. managing partner and co-head of global M&A at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and launched his legal career at Willkie Farr & Gallagher, will  begin his first in-house job Nov. 1 at Goldfinch’s New York office.