Keith Andruschak has joined Locke Lord’s New York office as a Partner in the Firm’s Regulatory and Transactional Insurance Practice Group. His vast experience advising clients on complex transactions involving the insurance industry, including mergers, acquisitions and dispositions of insurers and reinsurers, joint ventures, life insurance reserve financing transactions, and insurance and other risk-linked securities, will help strengthen and expand the Firm’s Regulatory and Transactional Insurance Practice Group.

Paul Neufeld has joined Locke Lord’s Houston and London offices as a Partner in the Firm’s International Arbitration Practice Group. Neufeld, who is licensed to practice in the United States and the UK, brings to the Firm strong international arbitration and litigation experience representing clients in proceedings under many different types of arbitration rules in both commercial and treaty arbitration cases and will provide even greater depth to Locke Lord’s International Arbitration Practice Group.

Kirkland & Ellis International LLP is pleased to announce that Kate Stephenson has joined the Firm’s London office as a partner in the Restructuring Practice Group. Ms. Stephenson focuses her practice on providing professional support in financial restructurings and formal insolvency mandates for a wide range of stakeholders including individual lenders, steering committees, sponsors, borrowers and insolvency officeholders.

Andrew Parlen brings significant experience guiding creditor groups and companies through complex restructurings.

Latham & Watkins LLP1 is pleased to announce Andrew Parlen has joined the firm’s New York office in the Restructuring, Insolvency & Workouts Practice within the Finance Department. He has an extensive track record advising creditor groups as well as public and private companies on some of the most complex restructurings in- and out-of-court.

In Latin America, the increase of enforcement activity, the passage of new laws, and greater coordination between U.S. and Latin American authorities have put companies doing business and investing in the region under heightened pressure to detect and prevent corruption. To help clients identify and mitigate corruption-related risks, global law firm Ropes & Gray has added María González Calvet, a former prosecutor and in-house counsel at a Fortune 100 company, to its market-leading anti-corruption and international risk practice. Ms.

Shearman & Sterling is delighted to announce that David Flechner has joined the firm as a capital markets partner in its São Paulo office. Flechner joins the firm from Allen & Overy, where he was a partner.

BLM, the UK and Ireland’s leading insurance and commercial risk law firm, has invested in its Commercial Advisory and Private Wealth practice with the appointment of Iskander Fernandez as partner, bringing a wealth of experience in advising and representing clients with white collar crime issues.

Sam Tate joins firm in September from financial crime consultancy, Exiger.

RPC has hired former Clifford Chance lawyer Sam Tate as a partner in its growing regulatory team. Sam leaves a role at Exiger, where he was Head of Anti-corruption in EMEA working closely with a number of FTSE 100 companies.  During his time at the financial crime consultancy, Sam was also a senior member of court appointed compliance monitorships relating to two global banks and provided legal advice and support to Lisa Osofsky, the new head of the Serious Fraud Office.

Simmons & Simmons has continued to enhance and diversify their offering as they welcome a new Information, Communications & Technology (ICT) team in Italy, who will focus predominantly on corporate and commercial work in the Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) sector. The team will be led by partner, Edoardo Tedeschi, who joined the firm on 01 September 2018. This follows the recent arrivals of IP partners Stefania Bergia and Giulio Enrico Sironi who also joined the firm this week.

Watson Farley & Williams (“WFW”) is delighted to announce that aviation and asset finance rising star Jim Bell will be joining the firm’s Global Aviation group in London. Jim is currently a Partner at Bird & Bird in the same city. His start date is to be confirmed.