Shearman loses City projects partner to US rival
Shearman & Sterling City-based projects partner Nigel Thompson has quit the US firm to join Baker Botts in Dubai. Thompson, who joined Shearman in 1996, advises sponsors and lenders on infrastructure projects, with a particular emphasis on energy and oil and gas projects. His departure will leave Shearman with three full-time projects partners in London - including City managing partner Kenneth MacRitchie - and around 19 associates.
April 20, 2007 at 11:42 AM
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Shearman & Sterling City-based projects partner Nigel Thompson has quit the US firm to join Baker Botts in Dubai.
Thompson, who joined Shearman in 1996, advises sponsors and lenders on infrastructure projects, with a particular emphasis on energy and oil and gas projects. His departure will leave Shearman with three full-time projects partners in London – including City managing partner Kenneth MacRitchie – and around 19 associates.
The news comes less than a year after another City projects partner, Stephen Peppiatt, quit Shearman to join Bingham McCutchen.
Shearman projects head Nicholas Buckworth said the London projects team had been focusing increasingly on energy work in the Middle East and Africa.
The firm recently moved two associates from London to Abu Dhabi and today (20 April) announced that it has bolstered its junior ranks in London with the hire of Iain Elder from Clifford Chance as counsel and two new senior associates.
Commenting on the latest departure, Buckworth told Legal Week: "We wish him the best [and] it is an exciting move for him. However, we continue to be in expansion mode in London. We have already closed three major deals this year and 2007 promises to be exceptionally strong."
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