Kirklands raids Fried Frank again
Kirkland & Ellis has secured its second corporate partner from Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson as the Chicago giant continues to bolster its New York arm. Thomas Christopher, son of former Secretary of State, Warren Christopher, joined the 900-lawyer firm on 12 May. His move follows Kirklands’ swoop on Stephen Fraidin, a high-profile Fried Frank partner, and January’s double-partner hire of Vincent Pisano and Jonathan Pedersen from Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom.
First reported on www.legalweek.net (21 May).
Dentons’ Budd returns from Paris
Denton Wilde Sapte’s Paris-based finance partner Nicholas Budd is returning to the firm’s London HQ next month after 12 years in France. Budd, who joined Dentons from White & Case’s Paris trade finance practice group last February, works closely with Dentons’ trade finance team, which is headed by Geoffrey Wynne. He starts in London on 16 June.
