December 4, 2018
Greenberg Traurig has hired on two members of US firm Ropes & Gray’s real estate team.
Partha Pal and Carol Hopper will depart from Ropes after nearly four years in the firm’s London office. Pal joined Ropes from
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November 26, 2018
Azmi & Associates, a Malaysian firm, has received approval to hire a foreign qualified lawyer, becoming the first firm in the country to do so.
Pierre Brochet, who is qualified in England, Wales, and France, will
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October 17, 2018
Several firms have recently announced new hires, including DLA Piper, Eversheds Sutherland, Morgan Lewis, and Dorsey & Whitney.
DLA has hired tax partner Clive Jones in London from Greenberg Traurig. Eversheds has
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October 8, 2018
HFW has hired Andrew Thomas as a senior project finance partner in the firm’s London office. He joins HFW from Andrews Kurth, bringing HFW’s global energy practice to a total of 33 partners throughout 20 of the
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September 25, 2018
HFW has announced its first lateral hire in the US, bringing on Derek Anchondo as an energy partner.
Anchondo joins the firm from Greenberg Traurig and has experience in M&A, joint ventures, production, financing, and
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July 19, 2018
Greenberg Traurig has recruited real estate partner Joel H. Rothstein from Sidley Austin. Rothstein will join the firm as its chair of Asia real estate.
Rothstein’s practice focuses on global real estate cases,
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June 21, 2018
White & Case has launched its new Chicago office, led by the firm’s US head of disputes Jason Zakia.
To support the launch the US juggernaut also made two lateral hires: private equity partner Gary Silverman and
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May 9, 2018
UK lateral hires by US law firms saw a significant rise from 2016 to 2017, with the number of lateral hires in the UK performed by the 50 largest US law firms nearly doubling from 80 to 140, as reported by The
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April 6, 2018
US firm Greenberg Traurig has hired Pinsent Masons’ head of corporate crime Barry Vitou to launch the firm’s first corporate crime practice in London.
Vitou joined Pinsents in 2011 in order to set up its
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February 13, 2018
The transatlantic merger between Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) and US firm Bryan Cave is coming to a vote. Results are expected to be in the week of 26 February.
Should the vote pass, BLP’s long search for a
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