Revolving Doors: Paul Weiss hires Kirkland City funds partner as US firms make moves in Paris

Switch window stays open for summer season as Paul Weiss picks up Kirkland Metropolis funds associate and Goodwin hires from Dechert.

Paul Weiss has once more used Kirkland & Ellis as a recruitment store for its London workplace, hiring Jeremy Leggate as a associate and European funding funds co-head.

Leggate made associate at Kirkland in 2017 having joined the agency in 2015 from Sidley Austin. He has expertise advising personal funding fund sponsors throughout the total spectrum of points regarding fund structuring and operations and on a variety of transactional issues together with restructurings, spinouts, joint ventures, and GP-led offers.

The rent brings Paul Weiss’s London associate rely to round 26, in keeping with the agency’s web site, together with these splitting their time throughout totally different workplaces. The agency introduced in Akin restructuring associate and Authorized 500 company restructuring and insolvency main particular person Liz Osborne to launch its European restructuring workforce simply final week, whereas it started constructing its London funds bench in March with the rent of James King, who made associate at Kirkland in 2020.

‘We’re thrilled to welcome Jeremy, a proficient and well-respected personal funds lawyer, to our partnership’, stated Paul Weiss chair Brad Karp in an announcement. ‘Jeremy’s expertise and deep relationships with a number of the most refined funds in Europe and the UK make him a beautiful match for our best-in-class London workplace and international Funding Funds Group.’

As well as, Goodwin constructed up its London funds observe with its rent of Dechert’s Thiha Tun, who brings broad experience throughout a variety of fund formation, funding, and transactional issues. His arrival follows the agency’s January rent of Debevoise funds associate John Anderson.

Additionally hiring a former Kirkland associate final week was Keystone Regulation, which introduced in banking and finance associate Philip McEachen as one in every of 11 hires, alongside Irwin Mitchell IP associate Marcus Collins, Goodwin industrial property associate Eric Lim, Armstrong Teasdale property litigation associate David Sensible, BPE Solicitors industrial property associate Antonia Protect, regulation and insurance coverage associate Frank Maher {and professional} self-discipline and regulatory associate Sue Mawdsley from Authorized Threat. Whitehead Monckton director and property workforce lead Robert Coombe, O’Donnell Solicitors household regulation director Gianna Lisiecki-Cunane, Microsoft industrial lawyer Nick Owers, and Sonder Inc GC Nadia Milligan additionally joined as companions.

In the meantime, in continental Europe, Bracewell launched in Paris with an 11-lawyer power and infrastructure workforce from Norton Rose Fulbright, together with three Authorized 500 ranked companions for power in France: Corridor of Famer and NRF international power co-head Anne Lapierre, main particular person Arnaud Bélisaire, and next-generation associate Simon Cudennec.

Additionally in Paris, Proskauer introduced Hughes Hubbard & Reed’s Paris managing associate Bryan Sillaman into its company investigations and compliance, securities litigation, and white collar protection and investigations observe.

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