• Paul Hastings has hired private equity lawyer Joshua Ratner as global vice chair of private equity. He joins from Goodwin Procter.
Monica Thurmond, partner at Fried Frank. Courtesy Photo• Monica Thurmond has joined Fried Frank as a partner in its finance practice. She was formerly at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison where she was a member of that firm’s capital markets and finance groups and former deputy chair of the corporate department.