Main the strikes this week, US legislation agency Hunton Andrews Kurth has expanded its London workplace with the addition of an 11-lawyer power and infrastructure staff from EY Regulation, together with 4 companions who moved collectively from DLA Piper lower than 5 years in the past.
The staff – which incorporates companions Charles Morrison, Dimitri Papaefstratiou, Simon Collier and Harry Brunt, in addition to 5 associates, a counsel, and a marketing consultant – specialises in power and infrastructure offers throughout oil and gasoline, renewables, thermal energy, and rising applied sciences like carbon seize and hydrogen.
This marks one other setback for EY Regulation, which beforehand misplaced companions Alan Cunningham and Richard Skipper to Hunton in October, with the agency including over two dozen legal professionals to its London workplace since August 2023.
Hunton anaging companion Sam Danon mentioned: ‘The staff aligns effectively with our worldwide progress technique, which is targeted on making certain that we’ve achieved vital mass in key practices, in core trade focus areas and in geographies the place shopper demand is powerful’.
Elsewhere within the Metropolis, Clifford Probability has employed Philipp Girardet as a companion in its world antitrust group. He joins from Willkie Farr & Gallagher, the place he was chair of the European competitors follow group. Leaving Willkie after eight years, he brings expertise advising on EU and UK competitors legislation, together with advanced, cross-border merger management, FDI and antitrust/cartel defence instances.
He beforehand was a companion at King & Wooden Mallesons the place he moved in 2016 to arrange the agency’s London competitors follow.
Nelson Jung, head of London antitrust at CC, commented: ‘We’re thrilled to welcome Philipp to our staff. He’s an impressive lawyer who advises shoppers on their most advanced and strategic antitrust issues.’
CC has additionally not too long ago seen some departures in London. Former head of UK actual property development Marianne Toghill has left for Simmons & Simmons after greater than three many years on the magic circle agency.
A Authorized 500 main companion for non-contentious development, Toghill focuses on advanced London actual property improvement offers and has suggested on a spread of iconic buildings within the capital together with the Shard, Battersea Energy Station and Canary Wharf.
Duncan Athol, a companion in Simmons’ development staff, commented: ‘We’re delighted to have secured such a highly-regarded development companion in Marianne. Her huge expertise, long-term shopper relationships and deep trade data will instantly improve the providing of our thriving development staff and wider ENRI follow.‘
CC counsel Michael Evans has additionally left to hitch White & Case as an IP and tech companion. Evans advises on the expertise regulatory, IP, contract and knowledge points of company transactions, industrial contracts and strategic tasks.
White & Case has employed Haynes Boone’s London head of finance Emma Russell. Funds finance companion Russell is about to hitch after eight years at Dallas-headquartered agency. She brings virtually 25 years’ expertise having frolicked at companies together with Carey Olsen, King & Wooden Mallesons and Squire Patton Boggs.
Her follow focuses on the complete vary of fund lending merchandise throughout fund sectors together with personal fairness, actual property, secondaries and infrastructure.
White & Case vice chair Oliver Brettle mentioned in an announcement: ‘Emma’s addition is one other essential step within the ongoing progress of our funding funds capabilities globally.’
In the meantime, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher has continued to broaden its transactional capacities in London with the addition of public firm M&A companion Will McDonald.
McDonald has moved after virtually 18 years at Jones Day, turning into companion within the agency’s 2018 spherical of New Yr promotions. His arrival follows the additions of White & Case personal fairness companion Will Summers in September and Linklaters’ co-head of leverage finance David Irvine who moved in April, turning into the agency’s co-chair of world finance.
Throughout a two-year secondment on the Takeover Panel, McDonald was concerned in regulating over 250 transactions together with Anheuser-Busch InBev’s £71bn supply for SABMiller.
One other agency making strikes within the IP house is Paul Hastings which has tapped boutique IP legislation agency EIP for mental property litigator Alex Morgan.
Morgan, who was made as much as companion in April, advises on main disputes involving cross-border IP points and has performed a key position in EIP’s illustration of Optis in opposition to Apple and ThroughPuter in opposition to Microsoft. He leaves after virtually seven years at EIP and had beforehand spent seven and a half years at Baker McKenzie.
Brown Rudnick has additionally been energetic in the actual property house, welcoming Eversheds Sutherland actual property companion Angus Ford who joins because the agency’s head of UK & European actual property in London.
Ford specialises in advising on modern residential, retail, and industrial developments together with cloud storage amenities. He joins after practically 12 years at Eversheds and beforehand frolicked at legacy Berwin Leighton Paisner and Osborne Clarke.
In the meantime, personal shopper companion, Jonathan Burt has decamped to Charles Russell Speechlys following a six-year stint at Harbottle & Lewis.
Burt arrives with greater than 30 years of expertise advising entrepreneurs, enterprise and wealth house owners on worldwide personal shopper issues. He has additionally frolicked at Harcus Sinclair, Baker & McKenzie and as a managing director at Barclays Wealth.
Payne Hicks Seaside has tapped Withers for property companion Peter Lamb and personal shopper senior affiliate Phineas Hirsch who has joined as a companion.
Lamb joins after 11 years at Withers and has labored on a broad vary of transactions for main organisations, entrepreneurs and people. Hirsch is fluent in French and Spanish and has developed important expertise in coping with overseas property and estates in Continental Europe.
Within the US, Freshfields has welcomed company lawyer Calise Cheng and worker advantages and government compensation follow Heather Brookfield to its Silicon Valley workplace.
Cheng has slotted into the agency’s capital markets group. She strikes after seven years at Cooley having beforehand spent 11 years at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Brookfield, in the meantime, focuses on the illustration of corporations of their compensation and worker advantages issues. Her transfer comes after three and a half years at Goodwin Procter.
In Germany, Latham & Watkins has welcomed capital markets companions Oliver Seiler and David Rath again to the agency’s Frankfurt workplace after the pair moved to White & Case in July.
Seiler and Rath advise advising issuers, personal fairness sponsors, and underwriters on a spread of home and worldwide fairness capital markets transactions.
‘We’re thrilled to welcome Oliver and David again to Latham,’ mentioned Burc Hesse, workplace managing companion of Latham & Watkins in Germany in an announcement. ‘With their popularity as prime capital markets companions in Germany, Oliver and David will recontribute intensive experience and a observe document of success in modern transactions.’
tom.cox@legalease.co.uk
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