Clifford Chance has hired international equality campaigner Tiernan Brady as its first global head of inclusion. Brady will be responsible for putting together strategies to improve diversity and inclusion at the firm. He was formerly executive director of the Equality Campaign in Australia, where he took a leading role in putting together the campaign strategy for the country's successful vote in favour of marriage equality in 2017. Prior to that role he was political director for Yes Equality, the main campaign vehicle for the same vote in Ireland that passed in 2015.

White & Case has bolstered its finance practice with the hire of Fergus Wheeler from King & Spalding. Wheeler joined King & Spalding in 2017 from Ropes & Gray and advises private credit funds and asset managers on debt finance.

KPMG has further strengthened its corporate legal practice in its Birmingham office with a partner hire from a Big Four rival. Peter Workman is joining KPMG from PwC, where he led its Midlands corporate legal practice and its flexible lawyer offering. In his new role he will lead a team of nine business structuring and transactions lawyers.

German firm Heuking Kuhn Luer Wojtek has grown its Munich office with a lateral hire from Deloitte. Martin Strohmann joins the firm as a compliance partner, after four years at Deloitte's Munich legal arm. Before his role at Deloitte in the business integrity (compliance) department, Ströhmann was a partner at White & Case for a year, and prior to that was a partner at Kirkland & Ellis.

Dutch firm De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek has appointed former general counsel Sven Dumoulin as a corporate partner. Dumoulin was GC at the Dutch paint company AkzoNobel from 2010 to 2018, and before that was legal counsel and group secretary at Unilever. Dumoulin will begin his role in May 2019.

City law firm Fox Williams has hired Andrew Hill as a partner in its dispute resolution team. Hill joins from Stewarts Law, where he was a partner since 2016. He specialises in securities litigation and began his career as an in-house counsel at UBS, before becoming an associate at Baker & McKenzie for 14 years, in both the firm's London and Sydney offices. He joined Stewarts as a senior associate in London in 2012.

Intellectual law firm Mewburn Ellis has appointed a new head of trade mark for the firm's London office. Kate O'Rourke joins from Charles Russell Speechlys, where she had been senior counsel since 2008, leading the firm's trade mark registration and protection team for more than five years.

Brown Rudnick has expanded its European finance and special situations practice group with a duo of US partner hires. Corporate partner James Cole from Paul Hastings and special situations partner Iden Asl from Mandel, Katz & Brosnan join the firm to grow the group, based in London. Prior to joining Paul Hastings, Cole was London head of the corporate and capital markets team at Weil Gotshal & Manges.

Mishcon de Reya has hired K&L Gates head of competition and trade regulation, Neil Baylis, as a partner in the firm's competition group. According to Mishcon, Baylis advises on all aspects of EU and UK competition law and has particular experience in the automotive, sports, manufacturing and travel sectors. He spent 17 years at K&L Gates before moving to Mishcon, and also had stints at Clifford Chance and Ashurst.

Dentons has added two new partners to its Brussels competition and antitrust practice. Yves Botteman and Jean-Nicolas Maillard join from US firm Steptoe & Johnson, along with a team of two associates. Botteman previously led Steptoe's competition and antitrust practice for just over a year, and was partner at the firm for a further eight years. Maillard spent five years as a partner at Steptoe. Dentons recently revamped its UK trade group ahead of Brexit.

Irish law firm LK Shields has hired Adrian Mulryan as head of financial services. Mulryan rejoins the firm – where he began as a solicitor – after nearly two decades in other private practice and in-house roles, including two general counsel roles at Source and MarketBeta. This is his first partnership role.

DLA Piper has re-hired white-collar crime partner Emanuel Ballo, after he left in 2015 to join domestic firm Gleiss Lutz. He returns to the firm's litigation and regulatory practice in Frankfurt this month. Previously, he had worked at US firms Latham & Watkins and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton.