DLA Piper's former head of restructuring Simon Nielson-Clark is to join the London office of McGuire Woods as a partner.

Nielson-Clark, who is leaving DLA next week, will become the 23rd partner in the US firm's City office when he joins in mid-May.

"McGuire Woods is a great place to build a restructuring practice," Neilson-Clark told Legal Week. "All the action is with the US connections, because that's where a large number of the funds are, so the idea is to utilise the current platform to find distressed situations."