Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft has recruited the global head of private equity at Latham & Watkins, writes the New York Law Journal.
Ronald Hopkinson has represented major private equity firms including the Carlyle Group and Welsh Carson Anderson & Stowe on a number of high-profile deals. He was lead counsel to Carlyle and Welsh Carson in their $7bn (£3.6bn) acquisition of phone directory company QwestDex in 2002 – then one of the largest private equity deals ever seen. He again represented those two funds, along with Blackstone Group and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co, in their $12bn (£6.1bn) acquisition of media company VNU in 2006.
