Baker & McKenzie has hired two tax partners from McDermott Will & Emery's New York office. Maria Eberle and Lindsay LaCava have joined Baker & McKenzie's North American tax practice as partners in the New York office. Eberle and LaCava assist businesses and individuals with both state and local tax planning and litigation matters. The duo's focus is on the financial services, insurance, and energy industries.

Baker & McKenzie has also appointed two partners to its London corporate practice. James Thompson joins the firm from Linklaters where he is a managing associate in the London corporate practice, while Joanna Hewitt re-joins the firm from Olswang's corporate practice where she is a senior associate, having started her career as a trainee and later an associate at Baker & McKenzie. The pair will join the firm in January 2016 as partners.

Hogan Lovells has hired partner Sabrina Borocci to join its global antitrust practice. Borocci will join the firm's Milan office on 30 November. Her experience includes a broad range of antitrust work including merger investigations, cartel cases, state aid, unfair commercial practices cases, antitrust compliance and counselling work. Borocci will join Hogan Lovells from Italian firm D'Urso Gatti e Bianchi, where she established and led the Italian firm's antitrust practice.

Ashurst has hired finance partner Lawrence Berkovich to join its US collateralised loan obligations (CLOs) team. Joining from Mayer Brown, where he built the firm's CLO practice, Berkovich specialises in complex structured finance transactions. He has a particular emphasis on broadly syndicated and middle-market CLOs, commercial real estate loan securitisations and rated and unrated leveraged loan and commercial real estate loan warehouse facilities.

Winston & Strawn has announced the addition of two partners to the firm's London corporate and finance department in London. Paul Amiss and Rebecca Finn join as partners from Pinsent Masons and Gide Loyrette Nouel, respectively. Amiss is an M&A and corporate finance lawyer and has particular experience in advising on cross border transactions. Finn is a banking and finance partner, most recently based in Hong Kong, where she led Gide Loyrette Nouel's Finance Practice.

Dentons has recruited corporate insurance partner Martin Mankabady from Clyde & Co where he was also a partner. Mankabady has joined Denton's London office where he will help to develop a global insurance team, working with US and Canadian colleagues. Mankabady advises multinational clients in the insurance and financial services sectors on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate finance, regulatory and other commercial matters.

TLT has appointed licensing lawyer Julian Skeens as a partner in its London office. He was previously head of licensing at Jeffrey Green Russell, which was bought out of pre-pack administration by Gordon Dadds in October. He will be based in the firm's London office.

CMS has hired Jonathan Woolf as a partner in its London corporate team. Woolf joins the firm from oil company BP where he was managing counsel of BP's M&A legal team. He particularly focuses on transactions in the oil and gas sector.

Restructuring lawyer Amy Flavell has joined Pinsent Masons as a partner in Birmingham. She joins the firm from Squire Patton Boggs in Birmingham where she was a senior associate.

Macfarlanes has hired insurance lawyer Andrew Barton as a partner. He joins from Allen & Overy where he was a counsel.

Tatiana Menshenina has joined Withers as a partner in the firm's London office. She joins the firm from Simmons & Simmons where she was head of the its CIS practice. She focuses on commercial dispute resolution, with a particular strength in cross-border contract disputes.

DAC Beachcroft has appointed Thomas Watkinson as a partner in its Leeds offices. He is a technology specialist who focuses on systems integration, outsourcing and procurement. He was previously at Pinsent Masons where he was a partner.

Linklaters has appointed Borja Fernandez de Troconiz as a partner in the firm's Madrid dispute resolution practice. Troconiz joins from Allen & Overy and is expected to join Linklaters in December. Previously he has carried out significant litigation work in connection with the marketing of financial products such as structured notes, preferred shares and derivatives. Before joining Allen & Overy, Borja was the head of the legal department at Barclays Bank in Spain between 2005 and 2007.

The firm has also appointed partners Matthew Weiniger QC and Pierre Duprey as co-heads of its international arbitration practice. They take over from partners Fran