A strangely familiar buyout hire looks more promising than its boom-time predecessor
Kirkland & Ellis moves to dramatically bolster its London arm, two private equity partners quit a prestigious City practice, seven-figure sums are bandied around and feathers are well and truly ruffled… No, this isn’t a flashback to Kirkland’s much-hyped recruitment of Linklaters duo Graham White and Raymond McKeeve at the height of the credit boom in 2006. But you don’t have to look too hard to see the similarities in the recruitment this month of Gavin Gordon and David Arnold, two well-regarded young partners in Ashurst’s corporate practice.
