Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft has brought on a four-partner private credit and leveraged finance team from King & Spalding, as the firm and others lean into the practice this year. 

The team includes partners Ronald Lovelace, Patrick Yingling, Jared Zajac and Joseph Polonsky, all of whom will be based in the firm's growing Charlotte, North Carolina, office, although the firm said the group will work closely with their London colleagues Matthew Smith and Bevis Metcalfe.