Eversheds Sutherland’s alternative legal services arm, Konexo, has hired three top former in-house lawyers as part of an expansion of its alternative legal services offering.

The trio includes Hugh Ford, the former general counsel of Intu properties and Virgin Atlantic’s former general legal manager, John Bennett, former general counsel at Bank of Ireland U.K. and COO of legal at Santander and Stephen Cooke, former deputy general counsel and legal COO at HSBC.