Linklaters and Norton Rose Fulbright have announced their retention figures for this autumn’s retention round. Linklaters had 59 trainees who qualified for positions with the firm, of which the firm retained 43, or…
Norton Rose Fulbright has hired M&A partner Paul Lingard from Clifford Chance and corporate partner Miriam D’Souza from Herbert Smith Freehills in Perth. Lingard’s expertise is in operational issues, complex M&A…
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.…
Mayer Brown has recruited veteran litigator Sam Eastwood from Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF) in London. Eastwood, a senior partner who has spent over three decades at NRF, having joined in 1989, specializes in…
Stephenson Harwood has opened a banking practice in Singapore with the hire of Clifford Chance senior associate Gregory Xu, who will join the firm as a consultant. Before his time at Clifford Chance, Xu also worked as…
In a significant hire in its recent spree, Ashurst has recruited securitization partner Jonathan Walsh from Baker McKenzie. Walsh has a history of securitization leadership, having headed international securities at…
Ashurst has hired Baker McKenzie’s global head of securitization Jonathan Walsh in London, just a month after hiring securitization partner Thomas Picton from Clifford Chance. Walsh joined Bakers from Norton Rose in…
Reed Smith has nabbed a 15-strong team of US lawyers from Norton Rose Fulbright, from New York, Washington DC, Houston, and Austin. The team is a combination of partners, associates, a counsel and a manager. What they…
Slaughter and May has recruited the city of Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission’s director of enforcement Wynne Mok. Mok will join the firm’s Hong Kong office as an investigations partner. Mok left…
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…