Fangda Partners, a PRC-based firm, has announced the hire of a four-member team from the Hong Kong office of Shearman & Sterling. Colin Law heads up the team, which also includes partner Peter Chen along with an…
Davis Polk & Wardwell has hired Ken Lebrun in the firm’s Tokyo office. Lebrun is a mergers and acquisitions partner who joins the firm from Shearman & Sterling. As a registered foreign lawyer in Japan, Lebrun has…
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett is slated to close its office in South Korea, where the firm has operated a base for the past six years. The office opened in Seoul after the United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement went into…
Simon Dodds has left his in-house role at Deutsche Bank to join Shearman & Sterling. He served as co-general counsel at Deutsche Bank and left his position at the company earlier this year after spending nearly 20 years…
Sullivan & Cromwell has recruited M&A partner Jeremy Kutner from Shearman & Sterling in London. Kutner currently serves as Shearman & Sterling’s head of technology. He is reportedly being brought on to Sullivan &…
Jones Day has hired infrastructure and energy partner Richard Kramer from Simmons & Simmons in Tokyo. Kramer’s career began at Shearman & Sterling, working in the firm’s offices in New York, Tokyo, and Abu Dhabi.…
Clifford Chance has hired Moritz Keller from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, where he served as the Vienna head of arbitration. He will join the firm’s Frankfurt office. Clifford Chance Germany managing partner…
Shearman & Sterling has rehired corporate rainmaker Ward McKimm from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, just three years after he joined the firm. McKimm worked at Shearman for 14 years, having made partner in 2005 and…
DLA Piper has hired corporate partner Roland Maass from Latham & Watkins in Frankfurt as well as corporate partner Yang Ge from Shearman & Sterling in Beijing. Maass joined Latham in 2006 at the onset of his career.…
Allen & Overy (A&O) has recruited M&A veteran Stephen Besen from Shearman & Sterling in New York. Besen has advised on mergers, joint ventures, private equity transactions and more for over 35 years. He also…