DLA Piper has recruited infrastructure stalwart Martin Nelson-Jones from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London, a rare corporate hire for the firm. Nelson-Jones joined Freshfields in 1991, making partner ten years…
Paul Hastings has recruited private equity rainmaker Anu Balasubramanian from DLA Piper. She will lead the firm’s London private equity practice. Balasubramanian worked at Kirkland & Ellis from 2006 to 2013, when…
The ink barely dry on a move that saw 50 lawyers, including 20 partners, leaving DLA Piper for McDermott Will & Emery, three more real estate partners from DLA are joining the exodus. Laurence Rogers, Neville Wright…
McDermott Will & Emery has returned to the DLA Piper well once again, hiring a three-partner real estate team after recently hiring 20 of the firm’s US partners. The London-based real estate trio is made up of…
McDermott Will & Emery has recruited a four-member life sciences team from Dechert for its Frankfurt office. The team is led by partner Rüdiger Herrmann. Herrmann joined Dechert from WilmerHale in 2014; prior to…
Charles Russell Speechlys has hired CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang’s funds group head Melville Rodrigues to join its real estate practice. Rodrigues’ training took place at Clifford Chance legacy firm…
US firm McDermott Will & Emery has performed a massive overhaul on DLA Piper, recruiting close to 50 partners for a new California office. McDermott intends to open a branch in San Francisco, the firm’s fourth…
Bracewell is boosting its London office with the hire of two partners in its disputes practice. The Houston-based energy firm has brought on Damian Watkin as of 4 December and John Gilbert, who is slated to begin on 11…
McDermott Will & Emery has released its financial results for 2016, showing an rise in turnover, which increased by 2.3 per cent to £22.9m for the year. Net profit rose 2 per cent from £9.6m to £9.8m. Meanwhile,…
Dechert has hired PwC’s Joachim Kayser, who joins the firm’s Frankfurt office as a partner on the financial services team. Meanwhile, Watson Farley has hired Bjorn-Axel Diβars from Latham & Watkins. He joins…