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.
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.
Ashurst CLO partner Lawrence Berkovich in discussions to
join magic circle firm after five fellow partners join Chapman and Cutler
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.
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.
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.
Macfarlanes
joins magic circle firms as majority stake in commodities news service is sold to US investor General Atlantic
Lee, who ran Ashurst's Hong Kong branch for about a year up until 29 July,
joins the magic circle firm with Jonathan Hsui.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
Magic circle firm
joins Milbank, Simpson Thacher, Kirkland Proskauer and Paul Weiss as mixed martial arts business is sold
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.