Investment Funds Partner Jumps From Gibson Dunn to Latham
Edward Nelson spent more than a decade at Gibson Dunn in New York.
November 18, 2019 at 06:15 PM
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Edward Nelson of Latham & Watkins/courtesy photo
Latham & Watkins on Monday announced it was bolstering its investment funds ranks in New York with a Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher partner who specializes in private investment funds.
Edward Nelson joined Latham as a partner in its corporate department as well as a member of the firm's investment funds practice. Nelson held similar roles at Gibson Dunn, where he had been for more than 10 years.
Nelson's clients have included buyout funds, infrastructure funds, venture capital funds and real estate funds. He also advises clients on issues relating to federal law. Nelson said Latham has a "considerably broader" corporate practice than Gibson Dunn, saying "it's a bigger platform. It's a larger part of the firm's focus" with a lot more lawyers.
"Ed's a terrific addition to our group. We are very focused on strategic growth of our investment funds practice in the U.S. and globally, and Ed joining us now completely enforces that," said Andrea Schwartzman, the global chairwoman of Latham's investment funds practice.
Nelson is the second partner to join Schwartzman's group this year; the first was Ivana Rouse, who left Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in Houston to join Latham.
Nelson's departure follows others from Gibson Dunn this fall. Last month, Matthew Hurlock, an M&A partner whose clients included private equity firms such as Bain Capital Partners, joined White & Case's New York office. Earlier this month, a trio of Gibson Dunn partners jumped over to Kirkland & Ellis.
But Gibson Dunn has done some poaching of its own. Since Oct. 1, it has added eight partners to its offices in London, New York, Paris and Washington, D.C. Among its newest partners is Kristen Limarzi, the former appellate section chief of the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division.
Before joining Gibson Dunn, Nelson was a partner at the now-shuttered law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf. Nelson in August 2015 testified in the criminal trial of ex-Dewey chief financial officer Joel Sanders about how he took out a loan from Barclays in order to fund his capital contribution, relying on the firm's assurances that it would pay the bank back.
Sanders was accused of inflating the value of Dewey until the firm went bankrupt and collapsed in 2012. Because of the firm's bankruptcy, Nelson had to pay back the remaining $100,000 he owed on the loan. Sanders was convicted of conspiracy, scheme to defraud and securities fraud in 2017; he's appealing his conviction.
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