The London arm of Ashurst Morris Crisp’s US suitor, Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson, has lost its only UK-qualified partner to New York rival Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft.

Christopher Kandel, who joined Fried Frank in 2000 from the London office of O’Melveny & Myers, becomes the seventh partner in Cadwaladers’ London office, which is led by managing partner Andrew Wilkinson.