The Transfer Window is a round-up of recent legal moves in the UK and abroad.

WilmerHale partner Wendy Miles has joined Boies Schiller & Flexner in London to launch the firm's international arbitration practice. Miles, who joins the firm after 15 years at WilmerHale, is the second partner to join Boies' recently launched London office, following the recruitment of former Bingham McCutchen litigator Natasha Harrison in 2013.

Miles acted as co-counsel for South Sudan in a major arbitration over a boundary dispute, in which a court in The Hague found in favour of South Sudan on most of its claims.

Olswang has added two non-executive directors to its board to monitor and support its executive activity. Former BSkyB deputy managing director David Chance and Rothschild executive vice chairman Andreas Raffel will be added to Olswang's seven-strong board, which sits alongside its executive committee and business services board.

Chance spent five years as deputy managing director at BSkyB between 1993 and 1998. Chance, who is currently chairman of Swedish media company Modern Times Group, is also a non-executive director at PCCW, majority shareholder of Hong Kong Telecom and chairman of its internet television subsidiary Now TV. He has also held non-executive director positions at ITV and O2.

Raffel has been executive vice chairman at Rothschild since 2008, following six years as CEO of the financial advisory group's German operations. He holds various other non-executive director roles across the not-for-profit, education and healthcare industries.

Jeffrey Knox, the US Department of Justice prosecutor responsible for a number of actions against banks accused of manipulating Libor, has rejoined Simpson Thacher & Bartlett as a partner in the firm's Washington DC office.

Knox, until recently chief of the DoJ's criminal fraud section, has joined Simpson's government and internal investigations practice, which previously counselled JPMorgan Chase on litigation resulting from the Libor scandal.

Simmons & Simmons has boosted its Dusseldorf intellectual property (IP) team with the addition of Bird & Bird partner Ina vom Feld to its partnership. Vom Feld joined Bird & Bird in 2002 and was promoted to partner six years later.

The firm has also opened a niche IP practice in Beijing with the hire of George Chan from Asia Pacific IP consultancy Rouse. The new practice has been set up as a separate legal entity that will allow the firm to provide a range of IP-related services under Chinese regulations. Chan, who will spearhead the launch, will join as a partner. 

Kennedys has recruited Parabis financial director Fiona Scott. During her time at Parabis, Scott was responsible for the financial accounting of nine trading entities and played a key role in the group's application for an alternative business structure. She also led the financial due diligence around private equity group Duke Street's purchase of a majority stake in the business in 2012.

King & Wood Mallesons SJ Berwin has boosted its London IP team with the hire of Olswang patent litigator Campbell Forsyth. Forsyth joined Olswang as a partner in 2011 after founding IP boutique Forsyth Simpson four years earlier. He mainly focuses on the life sciences and technology sectors.

DWF has sealed the hire of Irwin Mitchell regulatory partner David Egan for its Birmingham office. Egan joined his former firm in 2006 as partner from Shoosmiths.
He specialises in environmental regulation and corporate crime and has particular focus on the manufacturing, real estate and construction sectors.

Reed Smith has hired Allen & Overy senior associate Francisca Sepulveda as a real estate finance partner in its financial industry group in London.

Sepulveda, who began her career at Taylor Wessing, advises banks, investment managers, debt funds, private equity funds and borrowers on a range of real estate finance transactions.

RPC has secured the hires of Clyde & Co senior insurance litigation partner Leigh Williams and Holman Fenwick & Willan shipping partner Steven Wise.

Williams, who will be based in London, joined legacy Barlow Lyde & Gilbert (BLG) in 2005, where he became a partner two years later. Roles on recent mandates include acting for Polish holding company Elektrim on its €2.5bn (£2bn) dispute with telecoms groups Vivendi and T-Mobile.

Wise will work at the firm's Hong Kong office, where he will handle dry shipping and trading disputes. He joined Holman Fenwick in 2002 and was made up six years later.

Osborne Clarke has expanded its European commercial team with the hires of Baker & McKenzie partner Carsten Dau in Hamburg and Gide Loyrette Nouel associate Alexandre Glatz in Paris, with the latter joining as a partner.

Dau joins Osborne Clarke from Bakers' Frankfurt office. He specialises in distribution law and commercial competition.

Fieldfisher has ramped up its Paris offering with a trio of partner hires, including two from French firm UGGC Advocats. Corporate partner Pascal Squercioni, who was made up in 2000, has joined the base from UGGC alongside tax partner Antoine Gabizon, who was promoted in 2003.

Competition partner Anne-Laure-Helene des Ylouses completes the three hires, defecting from Parisian boutique YGMA, which she co-founded in 2004.

Norton Rose Fulbright has hired Clifford Chance counsel Julian Traill, who will join its corporate partnership in Moscow. Traill replaces fellow corporate partner Nick Dingemans, who has relocated to the firm's Singapore office where he will lead its corporate team. 

Jones Day has expanded its offering in Singapore with the hire of Mae Shan Chong from White & Case. Chong, who is admitted as a solicitor in England, Singapore and Malaysia, has joined the firm's private equity practice and has experience advising private equity and corporate clients as well as investment banks and hedge funds. 

Taylor Wessing has bolstered its private client practice with two new hires. Elaine Dobson will join the firm as head of residential property from Bircham Dyson Bell, where she currently led its residential real estate group, while Antoaneta Proctor will also join the team as a partner from Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co.

Dobson will take over from current head of residential property Joanna Ward, who is retiring after 12 years as a Taylor Wessing partner.

Irwin Mitchell has drafted in Locke Lord's Ayesha Hasan as a real estate partner in its London office. Real estate investment, finance and insolvency specialist Hasan has worked on high profile deals such as the administration of Blockbusters, and was previously at Berwin Leighton Paisner before joining Locke Lord in 2012.

Mayer Brown has strengthened its banking and finance practice in Germany with the addition of Dr. Patrick Scholl who joins the partnership in Frankfurt. Scholl joins the firm from Allen & Overy where he was a counsel in the international capital markets team.

The firm has also expanded its private equity offering in New York with the recruitment of former Reed Smith partner Jeff Legault.

Eversheds has recruited Pinsent Masons corporate finance partner Alison Starr. The equity capital market specialist will join the firm's corporate team in Leeds, which had already taken on 5 new lawyers over the past 18 months.

The firm has also taken on former Linklaters managing associate Mark Latimour as a pensions partner in the firm's London office. The pension investment specialist will join former Ashurst head of pensions Steven Hull at the firm, who was hired by Eversheds in March.