Gowling WLG is strengthening its nationally-renowned housing development and regeneration (HDR) practice by hiring a best-in-class team based in Leeds.

Seven lawyers are joining from Womble Bond Dickinson to build on the firm's existing strengths and enable Gowling WLG's HDR practice to better serve its national and northern-based residential development, social provider and regeneration clients.

Julia Dacre Field will be joining the firm as Partner. She has more than 20 years of experience in the sector and heads up Womble Bond Dickinson's Leeds-based housebuilder team.

DWF, the global provider of integrated legal and business services, has bolstered its teams in London, Edinburgh, Belfast and Saudi Arabia with five partner hires in just one week.

The new hires - who joined in early October - will begin their roles in the Corporate, Dispute Resolution and Finance & Restructuring teams.

James Wilson joins as a Corporate partner in the London office specialising in equity capital markets. Having built strong relationships with a number of broking houses, his work focuses on IPOs, dual listings, and fundraising, among others.

Reed Smith announced that Marjorie W. Norman joined the firm as a partner in its intellectual property practice, resident in the Century City office. She joins the firm from Willkie Farr & Gallagher, where she was a partner in its Intellectual Property Department.

Signalling further growth for the firm, Paul Hastings LLP announced that Jade-Alexandra Fearns has joined in London as a partner in its market-leading Antitrust and Competition practice. She specialises in helping clients navigate the increasingly complex antitrust and foreign investment landscape, including national security reviews, international sanctions and regulatory compliance issues.

The number of partners in Addleshaw Goddard's global investigations practice is rising to 10 following the arrival from Jones Day of Harriet Territt, who has over 20 years' experience resolving significant financial regulatory, investigations, compliance and dispute issues for a client portfolio comprising several of the world's largest banks and multinational companies.

International law firm CMS continues to strengthen and grow its Real Estate and Construction offering with the appointment of partners Helen Johnson and Helen Balliger who both join the Sheffield office. 

Winston & Strawn LLP announced that Jervonne Newsome has joined the firm as a partner in the Dallas office and as a member of the Litigation Department.

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP is pleased to welcome tax partner William Freeman and project finance counsel Alex Choinski. Freeman and Choinski, who join the firm from a prominent international energy company, are based in the firm’s Dallas and Houston offices, respectively.

The global law firm Jones Day announced that Patrick Haney has joined the Firm as a partner in its Business & Tort Litigation Practice. He will be based in Jones Day's Washington Office.

Schulte Roth & Zabel is pleased to announce the addition of Martin Schmelkin as a partner in the firm's Employment & Employee Benefits practice in New York.