Jeff Ehrlich, who served as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s deputy enforcement director for more than eight years, has joined McGuireWoods’ financial services litigation practice as a partner in Washington, D.C. 

Higgs and Tate bring to the firm extensive M&A, general corporate, technology transactions, and emerging companies and venture capital experience

Caroline Hobson has joined Cooley’s London office as a partner in the firm’s antitrust & competition practice group. Hobson advises on a wide range of EU and UK competition law and regulatory issues, as well as foreign investment control in the UK.

Ethan Glass has joined Cooley’s Washington, DC, office as a partner in the firm’s global litigation department. Arriving from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, where he served as chair of its antitrust investigations and government enforcement practice, Glass has extensive experience as a first-chair trial lawyer, a lead government investigator and a manager of government investigations.

Teri O’Brien’s arrival further cements Latham’s position as the leading capital markets firm in California and globally.

Latham & Watkins LLP1 is pleased to announce that Teri O’Brien has joined the firm’s San Diego office as a partner in the Capital Markets and Public Company Representation Practices within the Corporate Department. O’Brien focuses her practice in all areas of corporate and securities law with a primary focus on capital markets transactions and public company representation.

Elena joins the firm's growing and highly successful private client team to focus on domestic high net worth individuals and expand the firm's links with Cyprus.

Fieldfisher is pleased to announce that Elena Tzialli has been appointed to its private client team in London.

Elena will join the firm on 15 March 2022 from Fletcher Day, where she was a partner and Head of the Private Client practice.

Dentons has recruited Simon Prendergast as a partner in the firm's UK Banking and Finance Division. One of the leading asset based lending and receivables financing lawyers in the UK, ranked as a leading individual in both Legal 500 and Chambers, Simon joins the London office from Addleshaw Goddard where he has been a partner since 2013.

Global law firm Ropes & Gray announced the arrival of Christopher Poggi as a partner in the firm’s finance practice. He will be based in the firm’s 500-lawyer New York office.

John-Paul Motley has joined Cooley as a Los Angeles-based partner in the firm’s public companies practice group. Arriving from O’Melveny & Myers, where he was chair of the firm’s capital markets practice and formerly served as a member of its policy committee and as managing partner of its Los Angeles office, Motley advises on corporate board governance, securities law compliance, and sophisticated equity and debt transactions.

Kirkland & Ellis announced that Peng Yu, a leading private equity and M&A lawyer, will be joining the Firm as a partner in its Hong Kong office. Focusing on Greater China, Mr. Yu has extensive experience in advising global and regional private equity and corporate clients on a wide range of strategically important transactions, including buyouts, take-privates, PIPEs, growth capital investments, divestitures, joint ventures and other cross-border transactions.