Weil Gotshal & Manges private equity partner Douglas Ryder has left to join Kirkland & Ellis in New York, Legal Week has learned.

Ryder, who joined Weil alongside fellow private equity rainmaker Harvey Eisenberg from O'Melveney & Myers in 2011, left Weil over the weekend.

Meanwhile, Weil is this week set to announce the hire of Greenberg Traurig Maher (GTM) high yield lawyer Frank Adams, who is relocating from London to New York.