Kirkland & Ellis announced that Susan Burkhardt has joined the Firm as a partner in the Investment Funds Practice Group and will focus on credit funds.

“Susan is a highly regarded funds attorney with particular experience advising credit funds,” said Jon A. Ballis, Chairman of Kirkland’s Executive Committee. “We’re excited to welcome her to our market-leading investment funds group and our growing credit funds practice.”

A group of four lawyers is joining the Firm's Financial Markets Practice, based in the Madrid Office. The new arrivals include José Luis Pita da Veiga Subirats, who joins as a partner, and Borja Carpintero García-Arias, who joins as of counsel. Also joining as associates are Marina Zarza Santamaria and Nicolás Aragonés Escrivá de Romani.

Greenberg Traurig, LLP has strengthened its global Infrastructure capabilities with the addition of Richard Ceeney, who joins from Reed Smith as a shareholder in the London office. His arrival follows the recent addition of Kevin-Paul (K-P) Deveau, also from Reed Smith, with whom Ceeney will work closely to enhance the firm’s infrastructure and projects offerings.

International law firm Addleshaw Goddard has recruited experienced Partner Paul Anderson to its expanding Financial Regulation team.

Paul, who joins the firm from Squire Patton Boggs, will return to the firm's Leeds office at Sovereign Square having spent six years at Addleshaw Goddard earlier in his career. He has specialised in financial services and regulatory matters for over 25 years in a career which included a spell in-house and at a Magic Circle firm, having trained and qualified in the City.

Holland & Knight announced the opening of its new Seattle office with a group of 10 partners and six associates who practice in the areas of corporate/mergers and acquisitions (M&A), intellectual property, real estate, healthcare, labor and employment, and litigation. The office is Holland & Knight's 35th worldwide and will complement its vibrant office in Portland, Oregon, greatly expanding the Firm's reach in the Pacific Northwest.

Sidley is pleased to announce that Amy Rubin has joined as a partner and co-chair of the Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation practice in the firm’s M&A and Private Equity practice in New York. Ms. Rubin joins from Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, where she was an Executive Compensation & Benefits partner.

Leading international law firm Proskauer is pleased to welcome Duncan Woollard as a partner in the Private Funds Group in London. Duncan, a well-known lawyer in the European market, brings decades of experience across a variety of asset classes to Proskauer with particular expertise across private equity, private credit and real assets.

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP announced that Steve Y. Yoo will join the firm as a partner in the Investment Funds Group in the Corporate Department, resident in Los Angeles. Yoo’s practice focuses on the structuring, formation and operation of private equity funds.

In a significant move that further fortifies both its leading litigation practice and its rapidly expanding Texas footprint, Paul Hastings LLP announces the addition of first-chair trial lawyer Craig Stanfield as a partner in Houston.

Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP has expanded its Litigation and White Collar Defense & Investigations practices with the addition of Eric W. Moran as a shareholder in the New Jersey and New York offices. He joins the firm from Epstein Becker Green.