Ashurst has hired a former MJ Hudson investment funds partner after the legal arm of the management consulting firm announced it had ceased trading for good earlier last month.

Whitney Lutgen joins Ashurst’s investment funds practice after almost six years at MJ Hudson Law, where she first made partner in April 2021, according to her LinkedIn profile, and later co-head of the funds practice. Prior to that, she had been at Kirkland & Ellis’ New York and London offices for just under four years.