Debevoise & Plimpton LLP announces that Vadim Avdeychik has joined its New York office as partner in the Investment Management Group, bolstering the firm’s capabilities in the registered and retail funds space. In his new role, Mr. Avdeychik will advise clients in the investment management space primarily on regulatory and transactional matters related to registered and retail fund offerings.
Baker Botts L.L.P., a leading international energy, technology, and life sciences law firm, is thrilled to announce the addition of Nabil L. Khodadad and Alistair Wishart to its Project Finance Group in London. Khodadad will also serve as Head of Project Finance for the firm’s international offices.
Leading independent law firm Travers Smith LLP has announced the hire of Mandip Englund as a Restructuring & Insolvency partner in the Finance team, further strengthening its Restructuring & Insolvency practice.
Squire Patton Boggs has hired the former co-heads of the Governance, Risk and Regulation practice at Interpath Advisory into the firm’s Financial Services Practice Group in London. Federica Taccogna joins the firm as a principal and Nigel Webb as senior advisor.
Macfarlanes is pleased to announce that Foad Hoseinian joins the firm from 1 April 2025 as a Competition Partner in Brussels.
Foad has more than 15 years of experience advising clients on merger control and regulatory matters in Brussels and London. He assists clients in M&A negotiations and before regulators with strategic advice across all aspects of market regulatory law, including merger control, antitrust, digital regulation, Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR), and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI).
Global law firm Hogan Lovells announced that James “Jim” Davidson has joined as a capital markets partner in the firm’s preeminent and nationally recognized REIT practice, based in the Washington, D.C. and Houston offices. Davidson, who joins from Hunton Andrews Kurth, advises clients on REIT transactions, corporate governance, and securities market regulation, and represents clients in both U.S. and international capital markets matters.
We have bolstered our specialist residential development team in Birmingham with the appointments of partner Natalie Edwards and legal director Laura Murphy, both joining from Eversheds Sutherland.
Natalie joins Gateley Legal following 25 years at Eversheds Sutherland where she spent the last two years as national head of residential development and co-head of its living sector group.
Eversheds Sutherland has appointed Partner, Simon Kenyon, as International Head of its Technology Media and Telecoms (TMT) disputes practice with effect from 1 April 2025.
Simon joins the global law firm after almost 27 years at DLA Piper LLP, where he was Co-Lead of its International Technology Disputes practice, Co-Head of its UK Technology Disputes practice and Lead UK Litigation Partner in its India Group.
Global law firm Ashurst has appointed Lee Foxcroft as a partner in the real estate practice in London, as the firm expands its capabilities in the global real estate sector.
Lee brings with him a wealth of experience in real estate joint ventures and co-investment structures, with a particular focus on data centres, technology and the senior living sector. Lee's practice is renowned for handling complex, high-value transactions for private capital clients, including some of the most significant data centre and senior living transactions in the last decade.
Winston & Strawn announced the addition of Stanislav (“Stan”) Kalminsky as a partner in the firm’s Los Angeles office. He joins the Transactions Department where he will focus his practice on private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate and securities matters.
Stan has represented public and private companies, as well as private equity funds and their portfolio companies, in a variety of transactions, including mergers, stock and asset acquisitions and dispositions, cross-border transactions, joint ventures, leveraged buyouts, and restructurings.