John Gaffney, a former partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, has joined Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher as a partner. He focuses on complex corporate and commercial transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and capital markets transactions, with particular emphasis on the media, telecom, renewable energy and shipping industries.

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton has added Hugh C. Conroy Jr. as counsel based in the global banking and financial institutions practice. He was with Citigroup, where he served as a managing director and associate general counsel in the bank regulatory office.