Reed Smith has hired Omar Al-Ali, who joins the firm’s London office as a partner. He specializes in commodities finance and structured trade, and will work in the firm’s energy and natural resources practice. He…
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…
HFW has announced the launch of a new office in Abu Dhabi, the firm’s fifth office in the region. The firm has hired two partners from Reed Smith who will join the Abu Dhabi office: Vince Gordon, who served as…
Reed Smith has hired partners Sachin Kerur and Michelle Nelson from Pinsent Masons in the Middle East. Kerur, who served as Pinsents’ Middle East head, will take on the role of Dubai and Abu Dhabi head at Reed…
Reed Smith has hired partner Howard Womersley Smith from Cambridge tech law firm Taylor Vinters, where he served as the head of fintech. Womersley Smith will join the US firm’s London IP, tech, and data practice.…
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…
Reed Smith has launched a new innovation scheme, permitting its lawyers to spend 50 billable hours on innovation projects. Last year the firm did an initial pilot involving 17 lawyers. The scheme is headed by…
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…
Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) has hired four partners from Watson Farley & Williams (WFW), a pair in London and a pair in Singapore. Joining HSF’s London office are finance partners Rex Rosales and Jahnavi…
As the 4 April deadline set by last year’s new legislation draws ever nearer, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has become the second to last Magic Circle firm to make public its gender pay brackets. The firm pays its…