Ropes & Gray builds City office with hire of Weil restructuring partner
Ropes & Gray is set to bring in Weil Gotshal & Manges restructuring partner Tony Horspool. Horspool is expected to join the Boston firm on 1 March, less than two years after joining Weil from Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft in April 2008.
January 29, 2010 at 12:42 PM
2 minute read
Ropes & Gray is set to bring in Weil Gotshal & Manges restructuring partner Tony Horspool.
Horspool is expected to join the Boston firm on 1 March, less than two years after joining Weil from Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft in April 2008.
Horspool's hire comes less than six months after Ropes & Gray announced its London launch in October with the hire of high- profile City finance duo Maurice Allen and Mike Goetz, who joined from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.
The pair subsequently recruited high yield partner Jonathan Bloom, a former White & Case colleague.
Allen told Legal Week: "Restructuring and insolvency has been one of our core areas for the office. We've got people who handle restructuring but we really needed someone with the technical insolvency skills and Tony fits the bill."
Ropes & Gray moved to its permanent office space at 5 New Street Square at the start of January, with the firm initially planning to house some 40 lawyers. It has already picked up a significant mandate acting for cable group Liberty Global on deal finance for its €3.5bn (£3bn) takeover of Germany's Unitymedia, fielding a team led by Goetz and Bloom.
Weil has a leading restructuring and insolvency team in the US but has struggled to build out its City practice at the senior end since losing London restructuring head Chris Mallon to New York rival Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom in late 2007.
This content has been archived. It is available through our partners, LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law.
To view this content, please continue to their sites.
Not a Lexis Subscriber?
Subscribe Now
Not a Bloomberg Law Subscriber?
Subscribe Now
NOT FOR REPRINT
© 2024 ALM Global, LLC, All Rights Reserved. Request academic re-use from www.copyright.com. All other uses, submit a request to [email protected]. For more information visit Asset & Logo Licensing.
You Might Like
View All
Cleary vs. White & Case: NYC Showdown Over $5 Billion Brazilian Bankruptcy
Singapore's Drew & Napier Secures $3.5B Award in Civil Suit
Trending Stories
Who Got The Work
Michael G. Bongiorno, Andrew Scott Dulberg and Elizabeth E. Driscoll from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr have stepped in to represent Symbotic Inc., an A.I.-enabled technology platform that focuses on increasing supply chain efficiency, and other defendants in a pending shareholder derivative lawsuit. The case, filed Oct. 2 in Massachusetts District Court by the Brown Law Firm on behalf of Stephen Austen, accuses certain officers and directors of misleading investors in regard to Symbotic's potential for margin growth by failing to disclose that the company was not equipped to timely deploy its systems or manage expenses through project delays. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton, is 1:24-cv-12522, Austen v. Cohen et al.
Who Got The Work
Edmund Polubinski and Marie Killmond of Davis Polk & Wardwell have entered appearances for data platform software development company MongoDB and other defendants in a pending shareholder derivative lawsuit. The action, filed Oct. 7 in New York Southern District Court by the Brown Law Firm, accuses the company's directors and/or officers of falsely expressing confidence in the company’s restructuring of its sales incentive plan and downplaying the severity of decreases in its upfront commitments. The case is 1:24-cv-07594, Roy v. Ittycheria et al.
Who Got The Work
Amy O. Bruchs and Kurt F. Ellison of Michael Best & Friedrich have entered appearances for Epic Systems Corp. in a pending employment discrimination lawsuit. The suit was filed Sept. 7 in Wisconsin Western District Court by Levine Eisberner LLC and Siri & Glimstad on behalf of a project manager who claims that he was wrongfully terminated after applying for a religious exemption to the defendant's COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The case, assigned to U.S. Magistrate Judge Anita Marie Boor, is 3:24-cv-00630, Secker, Nathan v. Epic Systems Corporation.
Who Got The Work
David X. Sullivan, Thomas J. Finn and Gregory A. Hall from McCarter & English have entered appearances for Sunrun Installation Services in a pending civil rights lawsuit. The complaint was filed Sept. 4 in Connecticut District Court by attorney Robert M. Berke on behalf of former employee George Edward Steins, who was arrested and charged with employing an unregistered home improvement salesperson. The complaint alleges that had Sunrun informed the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection that the plaintiff's employment had ended in 2017 and that he no longer held Sunrun's home improvement contractor license, he would not have been hit with charges, which were dismissed in May 2024. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer, is 3:24-cv-01423, Steins v. Sunrun, Inc. et al.
Who Got The Work
Greenberg Traurig shareholder Joshua L. Raskin has entered an appearance for boohoo.com UK Ltd. in a pending patent infringement lawsuit. The suit, filed Sept. 3 in Texas Eastern District Court by Rozier Hardt McDonough on behalf of Alto Dynamics, asserts five patents related to an online shopping platform. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap, is 2:24-cv-00719, Alto Dynamics, LLC v. boohoo.com UK Limited.
Featured Firms
Law Offices of Gary Martin Hays & Associates, P.C.
(470) 294-1674
Law Offices of Mark E. Salomone
(857) 444-6468
Smith & Hassler
(713) 739-1250
