Latham & Watkins is pleased to announce that Oliver Seiler and David Rath will rejoin the firm’s Frankfurt office as partners in the Capital Markets Practice. Highly regarded in their field, Seiler and Rath bring a wealth of experience advising issuers, private equity sponsors, and underwriters in a broad range of domestic and international equity capital markets transactions.

Freshfields announced that Heather Brookfield has joined the firm in its U.S. employee benefits & executive compensation practice as a Silicon Valley-based partner.

In a move that reinforces its position as the premier law firm for tech clients, Freshfields announced that prominent corporate lawyer Calise Cheng has joined the firm’s capital markets group as a partner in Silicon Valley.

Calise represents companies at all stages of their lifecycle, from startup to mega-cap, as well as venture capital firms and other institutional investors. Her corporate practice includes IPOs and other public offerings, venture-backed private financings, governance and disclosure matters.

Global law firm Clifford Chance has announced that Philipp Girardet will join the firm as a partner in its Global Antitrust Group based in London.

Philipp joins from Willkie Farr & Gallagher. He brings deep expertise in EU and UK competition law, including in relation to complex, cross-border merger control, FDI and antitrust/cartel defence cases as well as market investigations, and compliance advice/behavioural matters. His expertise also extends to digital regulation issues, competition litigation and strategic consumer law cases.

Global law firm, DLA Piper announces the appointment of Katarzyna Jakubiak as a partner in the firm's international Finance group, effective 1 December 2024.

A&O Shearman announced that Andrew Tannenbaum, currently the General Counsel of Barclays Execution Services, is set to join the firm early in 2025 as global co-head of Cybersecurity, based in New York. Andrew will lead the firm’s Cybersecurity team with fellow global co-head, Ffion Flockhart.

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP announced that energy project finance attorney Noah Pollak has joined the Firm as a partner. He is based in the Firm’s Washington, DC office.

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP announced that Jeremy Bylund has joined the Firm as a partner in the Litigation Department, where he is Chair of the Regulatory Litigation Practice Group and a member of the Firm’s Strategic Motions & Appeals Practice Group.  He is based in the Firm’s Washington, DC office.

Global law firm Reed Smith has announced that structured finance attorneys Peter Williams and Elizabeth Walker have joined its Financial Industry Group, based in the New York office. Williams joins as partner and Walker joins as counsel. Both lawyers were formerly with Linklaters.

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP is pleased to announce that prominent minerals and mining capital markets attorney Joanna D. Enns has joined the firm as a partner in Dallas.

Enns joins Hunton Andrews Kurth from Vinson & Elkins LLP, where she built a reputation as a well-respected corporate securities and mergers and acquisitions practitioner. She has significant experience leading capital markets, M&A, and liability management transactions.