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SNR London real estate duo set to depart for Stephenson Harwood

SNR Denton is to lose a London partner duo to Stephenson Harwood, including its joint head of real estate finance. The double hire of Andrew Hill and Paul Hayward-Surry comes after real estate finance partner James Linforth joined Stephenson Harwood from SNR Denton in early October.
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Wilmer hires Kingsley Napley heavyweight to launch UK white collar crime practice

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr is set to launch a City investigations and criminal litigation practice with the hire of Kingsley Napley heavyweight Stephen Pollard. Pollard is to join the top 20 US law firm's London arm in the New Year to found and head the practice along with a team of two associates. The move is the latest in a string of similar appointments by corporate law firms moving to build white collar crime practices in Europe.
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International Edition

Collyer Bristow bolsters construction team with DAC partner

Collyer Bristow has strengthened its London construction practice with a partner hire from legacy Davies Arnold Cooper (DAC). Jonathan Pawlowski joined the London law firm this month after leaving DAC in the days leading up to its merger with Beachcroft.
2 minute read

International Edition

LG grows City real estate with SJ Berwin hire

LG is set to boost its City real estate practice with a hire from SJ Berwin. SJ Berwin senior associate Mark Mallon is set to join LG on 12 December as a partner in the real estate group. Mallon specialises in real estate investment and development work, with a client base including a number of overseas investment funds and companies, as well as UK-based retailers, hoteliers and land owners.
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International Edition

Holman gains lucrative aviation client list as Barlows team joins firm

Holman Fenwick Willan has been handed around 100 new client relationships – including BAE Systems and Cathay Pacific – with the firm's hire of an eight-partner aerospace team from Barlow Lyde & Gilbert earlier this year. The team, which joined Holman last month, has brought a host of high-profile clients to the firm as well as broadening the range of work Holman can handle for its existing clients.
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International Edition

BLP bolsters competition with hires from Freshfields and BG Group

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has bulked up its competition arm with a new partner from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and a senior in-house counsel from BG Group. Elaine Whiteford joined BLP's City competition, European Union and trade group this week from her role at Freshfields, where she was of counsel. Whiteford specialises in competition litigation and is also a qualified barrister.
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International Edition

Dechert continues recent recruitment with hire of rated LG finance partner

Dechert is to further bulk up its City arm with the hire of LG banking and finance partner Charles Malpass, with the recruitment marking Dechert's fifth partner hire in London since April. The highly-regarded partner is set to join Dechert's London banking and finance team in January next year along with associate Catherine Gooding.
2 minute read

International Edition

SJ Berwin expands structured finance group with Sidley hire

SJ Berwin is to add to its structured finance practice with the hire of a partner from Sidley Austin, doubling the team's partner capacity in London. Sidley finance partner Andrew Bliss, who is a UK-qualified solicitor in the US firm's London office, is set to join SJ Berwin's City finance group after being voted into the partnership on 7 October. Bliss, who joined Sidley in 1999, has a practice focused around structured finance deals, including the securitisation of loans and rental deposits, repackagings, and bond and equity-linked transactions in the developed and emerging markets.
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International Edition

Holman hires Fulbright energy partner for London base

Holman Fenwick Willan has grown its London corporate, projects and finance practice with the hire of Fulbright & Jaworski partner Susan Farmer. Farmer, who is US qualified, will join Holman Fenwick next week after four years in Fulbright's London office. She left Fulbright in August. Her practice focuses on the energy, natural resources and electric power sectors, with her hire taking the total number of partners in Holman Fenwick's London corporate, projects and finance practice to 12.
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International Edition

LG boosts finance with Squire Sanders Hammonds partner hire as litigation trio exit

LG is expanding its finance practice through the hire of Squire Sanders Hammonds partner Iain Shurwood, with the addition coming as the UK firm prepares to lose a trio of litigation partners. Shurwood will join LG next month, having been a partner at legacy Hammonds since 2008. He was previously a senior associate at Denton Wilde Sapte, which merged with US law firm Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal in September last year.
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