Former O’Melveny & Myers partner Nicolai Schwarz-Gondek is now part of Sidley Austin‘s private equity practice. He will work as a partner in the firm’s Century City office. Schwarz-Gondek handles private equity transactions and mergers and acquisitions, including stock and asset acquisitions and divestitures and leveraged and management buyouts.

Murphy & McGonigle, a financial services firm with offices in New York, Washington, D.C., and Richmond, Virginia, expanded into the West Coast with the opening of a new San Francisco office. The office will be led by Mauricio S. Beugelmans, who recently joined the firm from Schiff Hardin. Beugelmans represents financial institutions in securities litigation, arbitration, employment and regulatory matters.