Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson’s London real estate chief is set to leave the firm to join the City office of King & Spalding following the US firm’s decision to retrench from UK real estate work.

Heilpern – who has been at Fried Frank since early 2006 after joining from rival US firm Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker – has been given a remit to boost King & Spalding’s European real estate practice. He joins alongside senior associate Leo Wilson from Fried Frank.