Clifford Chance has hired Nelson Jung as an antitrust partner in its London office. Jung re-joins the firm after various roles within several market regulators. He spent almost six years as a senior associate at CC before joining the Office of Fair Trading in 2010.

His most recent role was as director of mergers group at the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). While at the CMA he oversaw its merger caseload and most recently took the lead role in the CMA's assessment of yoghurt maker Muller's acquisition of Dairy Crest.

Guy Norman, head of Clifford Chance's global corporate practice, said: "As antitrust regimes across the world become more challenging, a well-executed merger control strategy can be critical to the success of an M&A transaction.

"Nelson's deep understanding of the UK and European regulators will further strengthen our leading team."

Jung said he was "looking forward" to "playing a very active part in the development of Clifford Chance's leading and ambitious antitrust practice in London and internationally".

Dentons has boosted its Warsaw office with the hire of a three-lawyer team from Baker & McKenzie.

Capital markets partner Jakub Celinski and senior associates Piotr Kowalik and Ryszard Manteuffel will be responsible for developing the equity capital markets and public M&A practices. Celinski joins Dentons after 20 years at Bakers, where he most recently held the position of co-head of the firm's securities practice group.

Winston & Strawn has hired two finance partners from Simmons & Simmons. Christopher Boresjo and Mark Moody have joined the firm's transportation finance practice in London. At Simmons, Boresjo led the firm's asset finance practice. Both partners focus on aircraft finance.

They opted to move to Winston in response to client demand for US law capability. US capital markets are an increasingly important source of funding for aircraft finance.

Shoosmiths has made three real estate lawyer hires in Manchester, including from DWF and Lupton Fawcett.

Partner Richard Outhwaite joins from DWF where he has been a partner in the firm's Leeds office since 2013. He was previously a director at Leeds-based firm Walker Morris, where he worked between 2002 and 2013. His clients include funds, property developers, retailers and hoteliers.

Commercial property partner Russell Davidson joins from Lupton Fawcett in Leeds where he was a partner between 2011 and 2015. Between 1995 and 2011 he was principal of Davidson Large, a boutique real estate firm, until its acquisition by Luton Fawcett. Between 1992 and 1995 he was a partner at legacy Dibb Lupton Broomhead in Leeds. He spent ten years as a solicitor at Linklaters between 1982 and 1992.

Daniel Hargreaves joined Shoosmiths in January as a partner from Pinsent Masons where he was a senior associate.

The addition of three real estate partners follows on from the September 2015 hire of partner Barbara Rollin from Gordons in Leeds where she was head of commercial property.

Irwin Mitchell has hired banking partner Paddy Sturman from Leeds firm Gordons. Sturman, whose clients include Santander, HSBC and Lloyds Banking Group, was previously head of banking and finance at Gordons.

Irish giant Arthur Cox has hired A&L Goodbody corporate partner Cian McCourt, who joins the firm in June.

McCourt has acted on a number of significant transactions including advising Medtronic on its $25bn (£25.3bn) takeover of Irish Republic-based Covidien.

Stephenson Harwood has hired Anthony Clare as a partner in its London corporate practice.

Clare joins the UK firm from Ashurst where he has been a corporate partner since 2002. He joined Ashurst in 1992.

The move will reunite him with former colleague and corporate partner Andrew Edge who jumped to Stephenson Harwood in 2010 and corporate partner Duncan Stiles who joined in 2009 and now heads up the firm's corporate finance team.

Mayer Brown has boosted its London finance team with a duo of partner hires from Dentons.

Tom Eldridge and Liz Soutter join the US firm's London office after 18 and 3 years at global law firm Dentons respectively.

While at Dentons, Eldridge was a partner in the energy infrastructure and project finance practice while Soutter specialised in debt financing solutions to investment funds.

PwC Legal has hired employment partner Tom Kerr Williams from DLA Piper. Kerr Williams joined DLA Piper in December 2011 having previously been an associate at Baker & McKenzie.

He advises on a full range of contentious and non-contentious employment issues and has a particular focus on industrial relations issues, including High Court litigation arising from industrial disputes and global trade union matters.

Allen & Overy (A&O) has re-hired partner Tom Butcher to head its Middle East technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) and intellectual property (IP) practice.

Butcher returns to the magic circle firm having spent two years at Simmons & Simmons where he headed up their TMT and IP practice in the Middle East and Anglophone Africa and co-chaired the Middle East growth market group.

He previously spent 11 years at A&O and was of counsel when he left in 2013.

Linklaters has added former CEO and chairman of the board of management of Allianz, Michael Diekmann, to its international advisory group, which is chaired by former British foreign secretary William Hague.

His appointment follows that of Tom Glocer, the former CEO of Thomson Reuters and Harvard academic Meghan O'Sullivan.

Kennedys has hired the former head of Lyons Davidson's defendant division, Ian Davies, as a partner in its Birmingham office.

Davies joins his former partners Mark Walsh and Robert Wallace who joined Kennedys with a team from Lyons Davidson in January. Davies, who made partner in 2007, has headed Lyons Davidson's catastrophic injury claims team for the last seven years. His clients include insurers, claims handling companies and large corporates.

Squire Patton Boggs has hired Andrew Herring for its real estate practice in London office. Herring joins from DWF where he worked as a partner for a year and a half.

He is a rail and transportation sector lawyer with experience advising in the UK and on international and cross-border projects throughout the US, Europe and the Middle East. Previously, he worked for Eversheds as a partner for one year.

Corporate finance partner Greg Stonefield has joined King & Wood Mallesons from US firm Mayer Brown's London office. Before joining Mayer Brown, Stonefield spent 12 years at White & Case. He has advised several large financial institutions and corporate clients on ECM related transactions, including several high profile listings on the LSE.

Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) has hired arbitration partner Patricia Nacimiento from Norton Rose Fulbright in Frankfurt. She specialises in both commercial and investment treaty arbitrations, acting as both counsel and arbitrator. She will join HSF on 9 May.

Tomasz Braun has joined Dentons as a banking and finance partner in the international firm's Warsaw office.

He joins from HSBC Holdings in London, where he served as associate general counsel of the bank's legal risk management and assurance sectors. In his new role, he will be responsible for further developing Dentons' banking and finance compliance and regulatory offering in the country.

Intellectual property partner Rebecca Swindells has joined Jones Day's London office. Swindells was previously an IP and technology protection and enforcement partner at Fieldfisher.

High street children's retailer Mothercare has appointed Daniel Talisman to the role of general counsel.

Talisman joins the global chain from GVC holdings, a service provider to gaming and betting markets.

He had been legal chief at GVC holdings since March 2013. Previously, he held the same role at sportingbet.

Talisman replaces Mothercare's interim GC Nick Folland who held the position following the departure of general counsel Tim Ashby to Land Securities in May 2015.

Ashby is currently overseeing a review of the listed real estate titan's legal panel, due to be completed this month.

A duo of lawyers, including one partner, has left King and Wood Mallesons' (KWM) Dubai office. International partner Benjamin Aller has joined funds boutique MJ Hudson while senior associate Matthew Showler has joined the Dubai office of international law firm Dentons.

Aller is a private funds partner and has moved to MJ Hudson to launch its Paris office. He helped found legacy SJ Berwin's Paris office in 2001. While at KWM he split his time between Paris and the firm's Dubai office.

Showler has joined Dentons as a partner in its dispute resolution practice.

The moves follow a slew of partner departures from KWM's international and UK offices.

Earlier this month, City dispute resolution partner Hilton Mervis joined Arnold & Porter.

Gowling WLG has hired an intellectual property (IP) specialist from Clyde & Co to establish an IP presence in the Middle East. Jon Parker, Clyde's Middle East head of trademarks, will join the firm in Dubai to establish the firm's IP practice in the region.

Parker, who focuses on trade mark portfolio management, has been based in the Middle East since 2006. He joined Clyde & Co in 2010 from IP consultancy Rouse.

Gordon Harris, co-head of IP for Gowling WLG, said: "This is an important step in our international development and cements our position as a world leading IP practice."

Addleshaw Goddard has appointed Elvan Hussein as a partner in its corporate practice. She joins the firm from Allen & Overy where she was a senior associate. She had a previous stint at Addleshaw Goddard between 2004 and 2006 and also spent time on secondment at a major bank in 2014.

DAC Beachcroft appoints three to its partnership, consisting of two real estate partners in London and a professional indemnity specialist in Manchester.

James Ross joins from Ashurst where he was a senior associate in the firm's real estate practice.

Nick Marshall joins from EMW Law where he was a partner and head of real estate in London. He was previously a partner at Mayer Brown in London between 2007 and 2011.

Professional indemnity lawyer Martin Paxton joins the firm in Manchester from Clyde & Co where he was a legal director between 2010 and 2016. He had previously spent four years with legacy Beachcroft in Birmingham.

DAC Beachcroft Managing partner, David Pollitt, said: "Their arrivals are further evidence of our continuing investment in two of our principal sectors, real estate and insurance. All three can help us build the effective and long-lasting client relationships that are fundamental to the way we approach our work."

Nick Stubbs has joined Eversheds as a partner from Ward Hadaway. Stubbs joins the firm's commercial contracts team in Manchester from Ward Hadaway where he was a partner. He was previously a managing associate at Addleshaw Goddard between 2007 and 2013, a legal counsel at Aviva between 2007 and 2013 and he trained and qualified at DLA Piper.

Watson Farley & Williams has strengthened its Paris office with the addition of Arnaud Troizier who joins the firm from De Gaulle Fleurance & Associes where he was a partner.

He particularly focuses on public-private partnership projects, acting for investors, manufacturers, banks and public bodies.