Covington & Burling has recruited to its New York office a seven-lawyer private equity practice from O’Melveny & Myers, including that firm’s former investment funds practice co-head, Timothy Clark.

Clark, who will become co-chair of Covington’s private equity practice, specializes in representing private equity fund sponsors, and his clients have included CCMP Capital, Eos Capital Partners, Tishman Speye, and JPMorgan Capital.