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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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Barlows partner opts for RPC move ahead of Clydes merger

Barlow Lyde & Gilbert insurance partner Victoria Sherratt has opted to leave the firm ahead of its merger with Clyde & Co in favour of a move to Reynolds Porter Chamberlain (RPC). Sherratt will join RPC next month, marking the first Barlows partner departure to be announced since the firm's merger plans with Clydes went public this summer. Sherratt, who has been a partner in the insurance and reinsurance group at Barlows since 2009, specialises in property insurance. Her hire takes the total number of partners in RPC's insurance and reinsurance practice to 29.
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Herbert Smith boosts City DCM team with hire of former Linklaters partner

Herbert Smith has strengthened its London debt capital markets (DCM) team with the hire of ex-Linklaters partner Andrew Roberts.
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Orrick grows Beijing corporate team with Hogan Lovells hire

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has strengthened its Beijing corporate team with the hire of a partner from Hogan Lovells. Thomas Man joined the US firm this week (15 August) alongside counsel Brad Herrold. The hire marks a return to Orrick for Man, who left the firm in 2008 to join legacy Lovells.
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BLP strengthens Abu Dhabi base with Linklaters hire

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has added a new partner to its Abu Dhabi office, with the hire of a lawyer from Linklaters in Dubai...
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