Law Firm Hiring

Seyfarth Shaw to open first Asia office with DLA hire

By Elizabeth Broomhall in Hong Kong | April 19, 2013

Seyfarth Shaw is to formally open an office in Shanghai in the summer, marking its debut into Asia. The US firm has appointed former DLA partner Wan Li as managing partner of the new office - it's second outside of the US alongside London. Focusing on corporate, employment and energy and resources work, the base is located in Jing An Kerry Centre Tower II, Shanghai's Jing An business district.

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Bird & Bird hires Virgin counsel to head aviation practice in Asia

By Elizabeth Broomhall in Hong Kong | April 10, 2013

Bird & Bird has appointed a former Virgin Atlantic counsel as a partner to head its aviation practice in Asia. Leo Fattorini is based in the UK firm's Singapore office, and is the first dedicated aviation partner in the region. While at Virgin, Fattorini oversaw all aircraft finance and leasing matters, and managed relationships with aircraft and engine manufacturers, lessors and overhaul suppliers.

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Orrick recruits White & Case partner for Tokyo IP practice

By Elizabeth Broomhall in Hong Kong | March 26, 2013

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has added to its intellectual property team in Tokyo with the hire of IP litigation partner David Case from White & Case. As head of Japan and Northern Asia IP and commercial litigation practices at his previous firm, Case has a wealth of experience advising Japanese clients in litigation and arbitration involving IP rights.

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KWM strengthens Sydney tax team with Bakers partner hire

By Elizabeth Broomhall in Hong Kong | March 25, 2013

King & Wood Mallesons has bolstered its tax team in Sydney with the appointment of Baker & McKenzie partner Tim Sherman. Sherman, who left Mallesons in 2009 to join Bakers in the Australian city, re-joins his previous firm on 1 July 2013 in a bid to strengthen the firm's regional tax offering. Focusing on income tax, Sherman has a wealth of experience providing taxation-related advice for corporate acquisitions, divestments and restructurings, capital raisings, onshore and offshore funds, and executive and employee share and option schemes.

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Sidley hires CC funds partner in Singapore after local licence win

By Elizabeth Broomhall in Hong Kong | March 21, 2013

Sidley Austin has hired Clifford Chance funds partner Han Ming Ho in bid to expand its capabilities in Singapore. Ho, who is Singapore-qualified, will join Sidley in the city state to serve as co-head of the Asia investment funds practice alongside Hong Kong-based partner Effie Vasilopoulos.

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DLA boosts Hong Kong real estate practice with Skadden hire

By Elizabeth Broomhall in Hong Kong | March 21, 2013

DLA Piper has strengthened its Hong Kong real estate practice with the hire of partner Ed Sheremeta from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. Previously head of the Asia real estate group for Skadden, Ed specialises in real estate investment both in the equity and finance space, advising on everything from acquisitions and institutional investments, to REITs, asset and property management and the establishment of real estate joint ventures.

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Latham boosts Hong Kong disputes team with senior Sidley hire

By Elizabeth Broomhall in Hong Kong | March 7, 2013

Latham & Watkins has expanded its Hong Kong disputes team with the hire of arbitration partner Ing Loong Yang from Sidley Austin. Yang, previously the co-chair of Sidley's international arbitration practice and an experienced litigator, has joined Latham to work alongside Hong Kong partner Simon Powell and of counsel Eleanor Lam.

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The Transfer Window: recent moves including OC, Freshfields and CC

By Legal Week | March 3, 2013

Osborne Clarke (OC) has continued its run of recent recruitment with the hire of Eversheds' former UK corporate head Mark Spinner. Spinner joined OC's City office last week, with his arrival taking the London partner count to 50. He has spent around 25 years spread at Eversheds over two spells, after leaving in 2000 to join internet start-up Wesupply and rejoining the firm two years later.

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Cleared for take-off – the new shape of the Middle East legal market

By Legal Week | February 28, 2013

Dubai's detractors have had a field day in recent years. The wise man, they pointed out, did not build his house upon the sand. From its heyday in the 2000s, doomsayers forecast the city would collapse and be swallowed up by the desert. That has not happened and, after a painful retrenchment, the Middle East's leading hub is back on the path to growth. With the opening of Terminal 3, Dubai's airport expects 75 million international passengers in 2013, rising to 90 million in 2015. This would catapult it into the lead as the world's busiest airport, dwarfing its closest rivals London Heathrow (65 million), Paris Charles De Gaulle (56 million) and Hong Kong's Chek Lap Kok (53 million).

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Herbert Smith faces fierce competition in 'over-lawyered' German market

By Pui-Guan Man | February 21, 2013

The news that Herbert Smith Freehills is set to launch in Germany later this year has been met with a mixed response from the local market, with lawyers questioning whether the firm will be able to come close to matching the strength offered through its former alliance with Gleiss Lutz. The firm last week confirmed it is opening an office in Frankfurt in the second quarter of 2013 with the hire of Ralf Thaeter, who was head of corporate and M&A at Gleiss. The office will initially focus on M&A, corporate, disputes and finance work, with a view to expanding to a full-service offering. The firm was not able to open in the country earlier than January 2013 due to the wind-down terms of its alliance with Gleiss and Benelux firm Stibbe, which broke down in December 2011.

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The American Lawyer

Learning From the Pandemic, Quinn Emanuel Will Now Hire Attorneys Outside Its Footprint

By Dylan Jackson | December 10, 2020

"Why wouldn't Quinn Emanuel be a firm of the best litigators wherever they're sitting?" Quinn said.

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Daily Report Online

SEC and EEOC Make Top Atlanta Hires—and Other 'On the Move' News

By Meredith Hobbs | December 9, 2020

Nelson Mullins partner Nekia Hackworth Jones will become director of the SEC's Atlanta Regional Office, while Marcus Keegan, who had his own employment law firm, is the EEOC's new Atlanta regional attorney.

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The American Lawyer

Mintz Continues Hiring Spree, Taking Partners From Nixon Peabody and Sidley

By Patrick Smith | December 9, 2020

The latest additions, in Boston and D.C., put the firm's lateral haul for 2020 at 21 partner additions.

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New York Law Journal

CFTC Enforcement Director McDonald to Join Sullivan & Cromwell

By Dan Packel | December 9, 2020

James McDonald stepped down from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in October after over three years in the role.

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The American Lawyer

Kaplan Hecker Continues Growth, Adding Buckley Partner and Federal Prosecutor

By Dan Packel | December 9, 2020

The new additions, including a lawyer who had been at Buckley since its founding, raise Kaplan Hecker's attorney head count to about 43, just four years after the firm's 2017 founding.

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The Legal Intelligencer

Vice Chair of Schnader's Securities Litigation Group Moves to Hogan Lovells

By Justin Henry | December 8, 2020

The 36-year-old corporate litigator says she's bringing major institutions in finance, insurance and sports to her new firm.

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The American Lawyer

White & Case Nabs Ropes & Gray's Former Global Restructuring Co-Chair as Duo Makes Move

By Patrick Smith | December 7, 2020

One of the few practice areas that saw a boost during the pandemic, new White & Case partners see a strong path forward even after the worst of the pandemic passes by.

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Texas Lawyer

Newsmakers (for Dec. 7, 2020)

By Jonathan Erway | December 7, 2020

Amy M. Stewart, a Dallas-based lawyer and founding partner of Stewart Law Group PLLC, has been named the 2020 Trailblazer of the Year from the Texas Minority Counsel Program.

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Delaware Law Weekly

Trusts and Estates Associate Joins McCollom D'Emilio

By Aleeza Furman | December 7, 2020

Tara Hersh left her role as an associate attorney in MacElree Harvey's estates practice group to join McCollom D'Emilio Smith Uebler.

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Texas Lawyer

Large Texas Firms Are Growing More Interested in Texas A&M Law Grads

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | December 7, 2020

Since A&M bought its law school from Texas Wesleyan University seven years ago, school leadership is noticing the effects of the "Aggie ring on the finger."

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