Magic
circle firm joins Milbank, Simpson Thacher, Kirkland Proskauer and Paul Weiss as mixed martial arts business is sold
The magic
circle firm joins existing panel firms Hogan Lovells, Slaughter and May, DLA Piper, Charles Russell Speechlys, Squire Patton Boggs, Olswang and Wiggin, all of which have retained their places.
Not exact matches
Douglas is set to
join the magic
circle firm after seven years at Ropes in London.
Dinamani is following in the footsteps of Ashurst's former head of corporate Stephen Lloyd, who
joined the magic
circle firm's corporate group as co-head of its private equity practice after resigning in November.
He
joined Monckton Chambers in 2012 following 10 years of practice at the Advisory Centre on WTO Law (an international organisation which represents States in WTO disputes) in Geneva and within the international arbitration group of a magic
circle law
firm in London.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's London aviation finance team is leaving to
join US
firm Holland & Knight, following a review of the magic
circle firm's wider finance practice that will result in a number of partners leaving by the end of the financial year.
Later in the week the magic
circle firm was
joined by Berwin Leighton Paisner which unveiled a bumper, London - heavy, promotion round.
Allen & Overy (A&O) chief technology officer (CTO) Ian Storer has resigned to
join Swiss bank UBS, after more than a decade at the magic
circle firm.
CC corporate partner Steven Fox, who
joined the magic
circle firm last year from Ashurst, is leading the
firm's team advising SS&C on UK law alongside CC partners Lee Coney (corporate), Roderick McGillivray (finance), Simon Crown (regulatory) and Sonia Gilbert (employment).
He also practiced as a litigator with legacy Herbert Smith in Beijing prior to
joining the magic
circle firm in 2011.
Exits from magic
circle firm's German practice continue to mount with partner set to
join Mayer Brown in April 2016
Ellis, who was a partner at MoFo between 2007 and 2008, has rejoined her old
firm this week to work alongside corporate partner Thomas Chou and M&A partner Jeremy Hunt, who
joined the
firm last year from magic
circle firm Allen & Overy.
Macfarlanes
joins magic
circle firms as majority stake in commodities news service is sold to US investor General Atlantic
Douglas Tween, who also led Bakers» New York litigation practice, will
join the magic
circle firm as a partner in its competition practice and will lead its US cartel and government investigations practice.
His departure will leave the magic
circle firm with one US - qualified partner in its Shanghai office when he
joins Ant Financial on 1 September.
Linklaters private equity co-heads Ian Bagshaw and Richard Youle are set to leave the magic
circle firm to
join White & Case.
The magic
circle firm has hired IP partner Mark Heaney, who
joined Simmons from US
firm Baker Botts last year, alongside fellow Simmons IP partner David Stone (pictured).
A trio of Allen & Overy (A&O) real estate partners, including the
firm's former US practice leader, have left the magic
circle firm's Manhattan office to
join Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy.
Ashurst CLO partner Lawrence Berkovich in discussions to
join magic
circle firm after five fellow partners
join Chapman and Cutler
Hogan Lovells partner Andrew Crook and HSF Mark Currell will
join the magic
circle firm in the new year, although their specific
joining dates have not yet been finalised.
Last month, Legal Week revealed that Berkovich was in talks to
join the magic
circle firm following a restructuring of Ashurst's New York office.
John Terzaken, co-head of the global competition practice at Allen & Overy (A&O) and head of the magic
circle firm's investigations and litigation practice in Washington, is poised to
join Simpson Thacher & Bartlett as a partner.
Lee, who ran Ashurst's Hong Kong branch for about a year up until 29 July,
joins the magic
circle firm with Jonathan Hsui.
After
joining the EEC, the development of legal practice by London law
firms in Europe grew tentatively as small offices were opened in Paris and Brussels by the magic
circle (and their predecessors), and a handful of other
firms.
Clifford Chance (CC) tax investigations and disputes head Liesl Fichardt is leaving the magic
circle firm to
join Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan's fast - growing London office.
He is set to
join the
firm as a partner in the magic
circle firm's City non-contentious financial services regulatory practice in early 2017.
Before
joining Orrick, Jerry was a partner with a magic
circle firm and chairman of the real estate group of a prominent national law
firm.