Law Firm Hiring

BLP boosts finance group with Ashurst partner hire

By Friederike Heine | November 16, 2011

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has strengthened its finance practice with the hire of Simon Small from Ashurst, 
who will join the firm towards the end of this year. Small, who joined Ashurst from Linklaters in 2006, will be part of BLP's banking & capital markets group. He has experience in capital markets transactions across a range of asset classes including residential mortgages, trade receivables, auto loans, credit cards, commercial real estate and project bonds. He also advises on corporate trusts. His departure takes the number of partners to leave Ashurst since May 2010 to 26. At Linklaters, Small was a partner for 11 years and was one of the partners to found the magic circle firm's securitisation business.

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Wilmer hires Kingsley Napley heavyweight to launch UK white collar crime practice

By Suzi Ring | November 16, 2011

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr is set to launch a City investigations and criminal litigation practice with the hire of Kingsley Napley heavyweight Stephen Pollard. Pollard is to join the top 20 US law firm's London arm in the New Year to found and head the practice along with a team of two associates. The move is the latest in a string of similar appointments by corporate law firms moving to build white collar crime practices in Europe.

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Collyer Bristow bolsters construction team with DAC partner

By Simon Petersen | November 16, 2011

Collyer Bristow has strengthened its London construction practice with a partner hire from legacy Davies Arnold Cooper (DAC). Jonathan Pawlowski joined the London law firm this month after leaving DAC in the days leading up to its merger with Beachcroft.

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LG grows City real estate with SJ Berwin hire

By Simon Petersen | November 15, 2011

LG is set to boost its City real estate practice with a hire from SJ Berwin. SJ Berwin senior associate Mark Mallon is set to join LG on 12 December as a partner in the real estate group. Mallon specialises in real estate investment and development work, with a client base including a number of overseas investment funds and companies, as well as UK-based retailers, hoteliers and land owners.

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BLP bolsters competition with hires from Freshfields and BG Group

By Suzi Ring | November 2, 2011

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has bulked up its competition arm with a new partner from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and a senior in-house counsel from BG Group. Elaine Whiteford joined BLP's City competition, European Union and trade group this week from her role at Freshfields, where she was of counsel. Whiteford specialises in competition litigation and is also a qualified barrister.

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Holman gains lucrative aviation client list as Barlows team joins firm

By Suzi Ring | November 2, 2011

Holman Fenwick Willan has been handed around 100 new client relationships – including BAE Systems and Cathay Pacific – with the firm's hire of an eight-partner aerospace team from Barlow Lyde & Gilbert earlier this year. The team, which joined Holman last month, has brought a host of high-profile clients to the firm as well as broadening the range of work Holman can handle for its existing clients.

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Dechert continues recent recruitment with hire of rated LG finance partner

By Suzi Ring | November 2, 2011

Dechert is to further bulk up its City arm with the hire of LG banking and finance partner Charles Malpass, with the recruitment marking Dechert's fifth partner hire in London since April. The highly-regarded partner is set to join Dechert's London banking and finance team in January next year along with associate Catherine Gooding.

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Holman hires Fulbright energy partner for London base

By Suzi Ring | October 12, 2011

Holman Fenwick Willan has grown its London corporate, projects and finance practice with the hire of Fulbright & Jaworski partner Susan Farmer. Farmer, who is US qualified, will join Holman Fenwick next week after four years in Fulbright's London office. She left Fulbright in August. Her practice focuses on the energy, natural resources and electric power sectors, with her hire taking the total number of partners in Holman Fenwick's London corporate, projects and finance practice to 12.

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SJ Berwin expands structured finance group with Sidley hire

By Sofia Lind | October 12, 2011

SJ Berwin is to add to its structured finance practice with the hire of a partner from Sidley Austin, doubling the team's partner capacity in London. Sidley finance partner Andrew Bliss, who is a UK-qualified solicitor in the US firm's London office, is set to join SJ Berwin's City finance group after being voted into the partnership on 7 October. Bliss, who joined Sidley in 1999, has a practice focused around structured finance deals, including the securitisation of loans and rental deposits, repackagings, and bond and equity-linked transactions in the developed and emerging markets.

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LG boosts finance with Squire Sanders Hammonds partner hire as litigation trio exit

By Suzi Ring | September 28, 2011

LG is expanding its finance practice through the hire of Squire Sanders Hammonds partner Iain Shurwood, with the addition coming as the UK firm prepares to lose a trio of litigation partners. Shurwood will join LG next month, having been a partner at legacy Hammonds since 2008. He was previously a senior associate at Denton Wilde Sapte, which merged with US law firm Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal in September last year.

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The Recorder

On the Move: Tracking the Ins and Outs of California Lawyers

By Aleeza Furman | November 19, 2020

New hires, promotions and awards from across the California legal market.

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Daily Business Review

As Renewable Energy Work Ramps Up, Holland & Knight Adds 2 M&A Partners

By Dan Roe | November 19, 2020

The new partners, including a former practice leader at DLA Piper, will help the firm meet continued demand for project financing and M&A in renewable energy, oil and gas and infrastructure projects in the U.S. and Latin America.

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Daily Report Online

Justice Blackwell to Join Alston & Bird in January

By Meredith Hobbs | November 19, 2020

The judge has opted for Alston & Bird after announcing last February that he would leave the bench on Nov. 18 and return to private practice.

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The Legal Intelligencer

People in the News—Nov. 19, 2020—Hoegen & Associates, Greenberg Traurig

By Aleeza Furman | November 19, 2020

John K. Lisman joined Hoegen & Associates as an associate, and Jessica Natali, a white-collar defense and special investigations shareholder in global law firm Greenberg Traurig's Philadelphia office, is set to lead a panel at the 2020 White Collar Practice Seminar, presented virtually by the Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

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Pro Mid Market

Midsize Moves: A Philly Title IX Partner, A New Orleans Office Leader

By Aleeza Furman | November 18, 2020

Montgomery McCracken brought on a partner to lead its new sexual misconduct liability and Title IX/institutional response practice groups, Kelley Kronenberg added a partner to lead its newly opened New Orleans office, and other midsize moves.

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The Legal Intelligencer

People in the News—Nov. 18, 2020—Appellate Law Group, Stradley Ronon

By Aleeza Furman | November 18, 2020

Virginia Hinrichs McMichael, managing attorney of Appellate Law Group, was the presenter at a Continuing Judicial Education seminar for the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas judges, and Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young announced that Julie M. Murphy rejoined the firm's Cherry Hill, New Jersey, office as a partner in the financial services practice group.

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The American Lawyer

Freshfields Continues US Expansion With Washington DC Addition

By Rose Walker | November 18, 2020

The new hire adds to the firm's Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States group.

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The Legal Intelligencer

Philadelphia City Solicitor Joins Ballard Spahr, Taking on Office Leadership Role

By Justin Henry | November 17, 2020

Firm chair Mark Stewart said the pandemic has made clear that a dedicated office leader is needed in Philadelphia.

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The Legal Intelligencer

PLW People in the News—Nov. 17, 2020—Eastburn and Gray, Williams Family Law

By Aleeza Furman | November 17, 2020

Attorneys, staff and their families from Eastburn and Gray volunteered at Fonthill Museum in Doylestown, and attorney Maris J. Weiner joined Williams Family Law as of counsel.

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The American Lawyer

Mayer Brown Picks Up Renewable Energy Finance Team as Practice Broadens

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | November 16, 2020

A five-lawyer group, led by Hunton Andrews Kurth partners Eric Pogue and John Tormey, moved to Mayer Brown in New York and Washington, D.C.

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