White & Case has hired Gilles Teerlinck, a capital markets partner who joins the firm’s London office. He focuses on international securities transactions, and specializes in high yield debt securities. Teerlinck…
White & Case has hired Simon Caridia, an infrastructure partner from Herbert Smith Freehills. He joins the firm’s London office, and is the firm’s 13th lateral partner hire in the City this year. Caridia began his…
Withers has announced the hire of six new partners in its Tokyo office, boosting its capabilities in Japan. Koji Yamamoto and Yoshiyuki Omori join the firm from Deloitte, and will both work as partners in Withers’…
White & Case has hired partner Bingna Guo from O’Melveny & Myers in Beijing. Guo has been at O’Melveny & Myers since the start of her career, and she was promoted to partner in 2012. Her specialties are…
White & Case has released its financial figures, which show staggering gains in the year ending December 31, 2017. The firm’s profit rose by 40%, reaching £126.6m. Its turnover increased from £229m to £264m,…
Jones Day has recruited finance partners Ewen Scott and Lee Federman from Ashurst and Dentons respectively in London. Scott’s expertise is in refinancing and restructuring, bilateral and syndicated financing, and…
White & Case has posted an 84% retention rate in its autumn batch of trainees. Keeping on 21 of the 25 trainees, White & Case has kept on par with its recent retention rates as well, having retained 13 of 16 (81%) of…
White & Case has bolstered its London litigation team with the hires of international arbitration partner David Robertson from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner and commercial litigator Steven Baker from Cadwalader Wickersham…
Chinese law firm Fangda Partners expanded its Hong Kong offering with the launch of an investment protection practice. For the launch the firm has hired arbitration specialist Olga Boltenko as a partner. Boltenko’s…
Mayer Brown has hired investigations and compliance partner Jason Hungerford from Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF). Prior to joining NRF as a senior associate in 2011, Hungerford worked at White & Case in Washington DC.…