Clifford Chance (CC) has seen five partners leave its New York corporate practice this year, it has emerged.
Corporate partners Helayne Baron, Karl Roessner, Sara Hanks, Earl Zimmerman and Richard Pritz have all departed from the law firm’s 20-partner New York corporate practice since the beginning of the year.
Zimmerman, Roessner and Pritz sat within the firm’s US M&A practice, Baron was a capital markets partner and Hanks worked across corporate finance. Zimmerman has joined US firm Sutherland as a corporate partner, while Roessner has joined online trading company E-Trade as general counsel and executive vice-president.
