Private equity partner Samantha McGonigle has exited from Weil Gotshal & Manges to co-found a growth fund. She has spent 13 years working Weil’s London office after transferring to the firm from Hogan Lovells in…
Hogan Lovells has hired corporate partner Stephanie Tang in the firm’s Hong Kong office. She joins from Shearman & Sterling, which also recently lost a capital markets team from its Hong Kong office. Tang…
James Harris has joined Pinsent Masons in the firm’s Singapore office, where he will serve as head of finance and projects for the Asia-Pacific region. Harris joins Pinsents from Jones Day, where he was also based…
Hogan Lovells has confirmed that a partner has left the firm’s London office following an investigation into an allegation that he was viewing pornographic images from a company computer. The partner was initially…
Many UK-based firms have begun to prepare for a no-deal Brexit scenario. Preparations include changing legal structures of offices based in the EU and reviewing contingency plans. Among the firms with extensive…
A number of firms have made recent new hires in Europe, including Watson Farley Williams, Cooley, and Holman Fenwick Willan. WFW has hired Friedrich Maximilian Boemke in Hamburg, where he will join the firm as a…
Several firms have brought on new hires, including King & Spalding, Pinsent Masons, TLT, and Bird & Bird. King & Spalding has hired Derek Meilman, who joins the firm’s London office from Hogan Lovells. Ian Falconer,…
Hogan Lovells has hired Antonia Croke as a partner in the firm’s London office. She previously worked as a senior associate at Ashurst, also in London. Croke is known as a dispute resolution expert, and will be a…
Baker Botts has brought on Matthew Levitt, who joins the firm from Hogan Lovells. Levitt spent nearly 17 years at Hogan Lovells, where he most recently served as the firm’s managing partner for its Brussels office.…
Osborne Clarke has brought on Mathew Oliver, who joins the firm from Bird & Bird, where he served as the firm’s UK tax head. Prior to joining Bird & Bird as a partner in 2005, Oliver was an associate with Lovells,…