Law Firm Hiring

Collyer Bristow bolsters construction team with DAC partner

By Simon Petersen | November 16, 2011

Collyer Bristow has strengthened its London construction practice with a partner hire from legacy Davies Arnold Cooper (DAC). Jonathan Pawlowski joined the London law firm this month after leaving DAC in the days leading up to its merger with Beachcroft.

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LG grows City real estate with SJ Berwin hire

By Simon Petersen | November 15, 2011

LG is set to boost its City real estate practice with a hire from SJ Berwin. SJ Berwin senior associate Mark Mallon is set to join LG on 12 December as a partner in the real estate group. Mallon specialises in real estate investment and development work, with a client base including a number of overseas investment funds and companies, as well as UK-based retailers, hoteliers and land owners.

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BLP bolsters competition with hires from Freshfields and BG Group

By Suzi Ring | November 2, 2011

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has bulked up its competition arm with a new partner from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and a senior in-house counsel from BG Group. Elaine Whiteford joined BLP's City competition, European Union and trade group this week from her role at Freshfields, where she was of counsel. Whiteford specialises in competition litigation and is also a qualified barrister.

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Holman gains lucrative aviation client list as Barlows team joins firm

By Suzi Ring | November 2, 2011

Holman Fenwick Willan has been handed around 100 new client relationships – including BAE Systems and Cathay Pacific – with the firm's hire of an eight-partner aerospace team from Barlow Lyde & Gilbert earlier this year. The team, which joined Holman last month, has brought a host of high-profile clients to the firm as well as broadening the range of work Holman can handle for its existing clients.

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Dechert continues recent recruitment with hire of rated LG finance partner

By Suzi Ring | November 2, 2011

Dechert is to further bulk up its City arm with the hire of LG banking and finance partner Charles Malpass, with the recruitment marking Dechert's fifth partner hire in London since April. The highly-regarded partner is set to join Dechert's London banking and finance team in January next year along with associate Catherine Gooding.

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Holman hires Fulbright energy partner for London base

By Suzi Ring | October 12, 2011

Holman Fenwick Willan has grown its London corporate, projects and finance practice with the hire of Fulbright & Jaworski partner Susan Farmer. Farmer, who is US qualified, will join Holman Fenwick next week after four years in Fulbright's London office. She left Fulbright in August. Her practice focuses on the energy, natural resources and electric power sectors, with her hire taking the total number of partners in Holman Fenwick's London corporate, projects and finance practice to 12.

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SJ Berwin expands structured finance group with Sidley hire

By Sofia Lind | October 12, 2011

SJ Berwin is to add to its structured finance practice with the hire of a partner from Sidley Austin, doubling the team's partner capacity in London. Sidley finance partner Andrew Bliss, who is a UK-qualified solicitor in the US firm's London office, is set to join SJ Berwin's City finance group after being voted into the partnership on 7 October. Bliss, who joined Sidley in 1999, has a practice focused around structured finance deals, including the securitisation of loans and rental deposits, repackagings, and bond and equity-linked transactions in the developed and emerging markets.

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LG boosts finance with Squire Sanders Hammonds partner hire as litigation trio exit

By Suzi Ring | September 28, 2011

LG is expanding its finance practice through the hire of Squire Sanders Hammonds partner Iain Shurwood, with the addition coming as the UK firm prepares to lose a trio of litigation partners. Shurwood will join LG next month, having been a partner at legacy Hammonds since 2008. He was previously a senior associate at Denton Wilde Sapte, which merged with US law firm Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal in September last year.

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Barlows partner opts for RPC move ahead of Clydes merger

By Suzi Ring | September 14, 2011

Barlow Lyde & Gilbert insurance partner Victoria Sherratt has opted to leave the firm ahead of its merger with Clyde & Co in favour of a move to Reynolds Porter Chamberlain (RPC). Sherratt will join RPC next month, marking the first Barlows partner departure to be announced since the firm's merger plans with Clydes went public this summer. Sherratt, who has been a partner in the insurance and reinsurance group at Barlows since 2009, specialises in property insurance. Her hire takes the total number of partners in RPC's insurance and reinsurance practice to 29.

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Herbert Smith boosts City DCM team with hire of former Linklaters partner

By Sofia Lind | August 19, 2011

Herbert Smith has strengthened its London debt capital markets (DCM) team with the hire of ex-Linklaters partner Andrew Roberts.

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The American Lawyer

Firms Will Continue to 'Clean House' Next Year, Lawyers Included

By Dylan Jackson | December 3, 2020

A mix of layoffs and hiring will continue through 2021, experts and firm leaders say, as the industry absorbs lessons learned in the pandemic.

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The Legal Intelligencer

People in the News—Dec. 3, 2020—Ballard Spahr, Pennsylvania Bar Association

By Aleeza Furman | December 3, 2020

Philadelphia City Solicitor Marcel S. Pratt is set to rejoin Ballard Spahr in January as the managing partner of the firm's Philadelphia office and a partner in its litigation department, and the Pennsylvania Bar Association Minority Attorney Conference planning subcommittee of the minority bar committee received the 2020 Award for Outstanding Leadership in Diversity and Inclusion from the PBA diversity team.

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Pro Mid Market

Midsize Moves: A Trusts and Estates Team and a Texas CFO

By Aleeza Furman | December 2, 2020

A trio of trusts and estates lawyers join Pierce Atwood, Thompson Coe hires a new chief financial officer, and other midsize moves.

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The American Lawyer

Boies Schiller Co-Managing Partner Leaves Embattled Firm for Cadwalader

By Dylan Jackson | December 2, 2020

Three other Boies Schiller partners are joining Nick Gravante at Cadwalader.

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The Legal Intelligencer

People in the News—Dec. 2, 2020—Wisler Pearlstine, Philadelphia Bar Association

By Aleeza Furman | December 2, 2020

Wisler Pearlstine announced that Courtney A. Keaveney joined the firm as an associate in its Blue Bell office, and the Philadelphia Bar Association is bringing Philadelphia's public interest community together virtually this year for the annual Public Interest Law Day.

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Texas Lawyer

Baker Botts, Morgan Lewis Add Environmental Partners, Anticipating Enforcement Uptick

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | December 1, 2020

Baker Botts and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius each bring on a new environmental partner in Texas, as work is expected to increase under the Biden administration.

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Daily Business Review

Surge of Hurricane Insurance Disputes Attracts Kelley Kronenberg to New Orleans

By Dan Roe | December 1, 2020

The 175-lawyer Fort Lauderdale firm added litigator Sean P. Sullivan to lead its New Orleans office, amid more opportunities to serve insurers after a series of storms hitting the region.

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The Legal Intelligencer

PLW People in the News—Dec. 1, 2020—Marshall Dennehey, Clark Hill

By Aleeza Furman | December 1, 2020

Health care liability attorney Ronald M. Puntil Jr. returned to Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin's Pittsburgh office as a shareholder in the health care department, and Clark Hill announced the addition of Nicole Phatak as a member in its tax and estate planning practice, resident in the firm's Pittsburgh office.

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Texas Lawyer

Newsmakers: Week of Nov. 30, 2020

By Jonathan Erway | November 30, 2020

Houston attorney Alexander A. Kuiper, an alumni of South Texas College of Law Houston, has established an endowed distinguished professorship of national security law at STCL Houston in anticipation of the law school's centennial year in 2023.

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New York Law Journal

As Employment Business Booms, 2 Practices Combine

By Aleeza Furman | November 30, 2020

Wechsler & Cohen will close its doors on Nov. 30, when its attorneys move to Harris St. Laurent. 

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