Cravath announced that Noah Joshua Phillips, former Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), will join the Firm as a partner.
Mr. Phillips will co-chair Cravath’s Antitrust Practice and advise clients across a range of antitrust issues, including mergers, business conduct and compliance, litigation and investigations. He will be based in the Firm’s Washington, D.C. office.
In a move that enhances its global finance practice, global law firm Reed Smith announced that structured finance lawyer Tariq Zafar Rasheed, will join the firm as a partner in its Financial Industry Group in London. Rasheed joins the firm from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP), where he led its derivatives practice.
Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has continued to grow its global disputes practice with the hire of Kevin Warburton in Hong Kong.
Kevin's practice spans international arbitration, commercial litigation, regulatory investigations and inquiries, and privacy/cyber. He joins HFW from Tanner De Witt, where he was a partner and Head of Arbitration. Kevin was previously at Slaughter and May in London and Hong Kong.
International law firm Trowers & Hamlins has continued its expansion of its corporate team with the addition of Martyn Kolankiewicz.
Martyn, who will be based in the firms' London office, specialises in corporate restructuring and insolvency and has vast experience in advising banks, insolvency practitioners, funds, corporates and all stakeholders of insolvencies on restructuring, formal insolvency, turnaround situations and recovery of assets.
He represents office holders, lenders and distressed companies in business rescue and corporate turnarounds.
Dentons, the world's largest law firm, has announced the recruitment of Matthew Cahill in Ireland - the second banking and finance partner to be hired into the firm's rapidly expanding Dublin office in the space of a few weeks.
Matthew is currently Head of Structured Finance & Securitisation and Debt Capital Markets at William Fry. Previously a partner at Clifford Chance in London, he advises on structured finance, securitisation, capital markets and derivative transactions as well as general banking and finance matters.
Katie joins from Linklaters with over 11 years' experience in project development, financing and M&A mandates across international and domestic energy and infrastructure markets. Most recently Katie has worked on many high-profile offshore and onshore wind transactions across Europe and Asia Pacific, as well as on large scale project financings and alternative finance structures for international corporates and funds in the petrochemical and oil and gas sectors.
Partner Charles-Albert Helleputte has joined Squire Patton Boggs with his team and will serve as the firm’s EU head of its Data Privacy, Cybersecurity and Digital Assets Practice Group.
International law firm Osborne Clarke has recruited Carol Dick as a partner in its pensions team.
Carol joins the firm from PwC where she had been a senior manager for six years. Prior to that she spent seven years in the pensions practice at Squire Patton Boggs, the latter four as a partner.
Global law firm Clyde & Co has announced that it has opened an office in Calgary, Canada through the hire of four partners.
The opening of an office in Calgary consolidates the firm’s presence in western Canada and indeed across the country’s major commercial and legal centres, following its opening in Vancouver in 2021 when it merged with local insurance and construction firm SHK Law Corporation.
The partners have joined from McLennan Ross. They are:
Allen & Overy (“A&O”) announced that Zeeshan (“Zee”) Ahmedani has joined the firm as a partner in A&O’s Global Funds practice and based in Los Angeles. Zee joins from Goodwin Procter LLP, where he was a partner in the firm’s Private Investment Funds practice.