Partner moves: February 2011

02 Mar 2011

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EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA

February kept up the pace of lateral hires across the board with notable movements in London between US and UK firms and activity among private equity practitioners.

The first big move of the month saw Sullivan & Cromwell boost its leverage finance expertise with the lateral hire of private equity expert Presley Warner, who left Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer on 2nd February after a dedicated 16 years at the firm. Warner, who became a partner in 2000 and who often acted for Goldman Sachs, will join the Sullivan’s credit and leveraged finance team.

Less than a week later, Berwin Leighton Paisner pulled off quite a coup against Herbert Smith with the recruitment of private wealth and charities highflyer Rupert Ticehurst, who was in part lured by the offer of being an equity partner. Nearing the end of the month Herbert Smith lost another private equity expert in former partner and consultant Henry Raine, who threw his lot in with Wonga where he will act as general counsel.

Again in private equity, DLA Piper lost Kiran Sharma to the London office of US firm Ropes & Gray and Malcolm MacDougall to Speechly Bircham. However in the other direction the firm recruited Jonathan Lisle, an M&A partner and specialist in healthcare and public company takeovers, from rival CMS Cameron McKenna.

Reed Smith, one of the two most active US lateral hirers in London in 2010, went one down, losing restructuring partner Julian Turner to UK media and corporate firm Olswang. Across town, K&L Gates continued its recruiting spree with financial services and investment manager Martin Cornish, the former managing partner of Katten Muchin Rosenman Cornish.

Lateral hires heated up near the end of the month with a series of big announcements in London, Paris and Brussels. Shearman & Sterling’s Brussels’ office nabbed a team of five competition partners from Howrey, including former and current managing partners Trevor Soames and Stephen Mavroghenis. Götz Drauz, Geert Goeteyn and Miguel Rato will join the exodus to Shearman and the whole team is expected to start work in its new office by the beginning of March. Shearman & Sterling’s bulk hire served to swing the European tally the other way following the earlier departure in Paris of M&A partner Tanguy d’Everlange, who will take up a position as managing partner of the local French outfit Kalliopé.

Another bulk hire saw US firm Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker recruit a team of three corporate partners to its Paris office, namely Pascal de Moidrey and Alexis Terray from Hogan Lovells and Guillaume Kellner from Proskauer Rose. The firm was very active with comings and goings across its offices and earlier in the month lost projects partner Jonathan Simpson, an expert in advising governments and international sponsors, to Hunton & Williams. Olswang’s Paris office was also busy poaching corporate partner Guillaume Kessler and finance partner Stephan Alamowitch from rivals.

However, the news of the month was the bold move by Norton Rose to open an office in Hamburg and poach eight partners from rival DLA Piper. The lateral hires included DLA Piper managing partner Klaus von Gierke. Seven of the partners, specialising in corporate, finance and energy, will begin work in Hamburg in March, while energy partner Corrado Wohlwend will join the office in Frankfurt.

Elsewhere, Swedish firm Magnusson announced a new office in Helsinki for which it hired three Finnish corporate / finance partners, including two from local rival Peltonen Ruokonen & Itaine.

Name	From	Location	Practice Area	To	Location
Petr Kadlec	-	-	Corporate / M&A	Havel Holasek and Partners	Prague
Simon Allan	Berwin Leighton Paisner		Finance	Goltsblat BLP	Moscow
Paolo Barozzi	Bryan Cave	Milan	Private equity	Grande Stevens	Milan
Fulvio Pastore	Bryan Cave	Milan	Corporate	Grande Stevens	Milan
Luigi Zumbo	Bryan Cave	Milan	Corporate	Grande Stevens	Milan
Charles Canassa	Clifford Chance	Milan	Equity capital markets	Travers Smith	London
Jonathan Lisle	CMS Cameron McKenna	London	Corporate / M&A	DLA Piper	London
Eero Rautalahti	Curtis Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle	London	Business Law	Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge	London
Stephan Alamowitch	Dechert	Paris	Finance	Olswang	Paris
Keith Hughes	Dewey & LeBoeuf	London	Corporate / energy	Vinson & Elkins	London
Mika Oksanen	Dittmar & Indrenius	Helsinki	Banking	Magnusson	Helsinki
Kiran Sharma	DLA Piper	London	Private equity	Ropes & Gray	London
Malcolm MacDougall	DLA Piper	London	Private equity	Speechly Bircham	London
Klaus von Gierke	DLA Piper	Hamburg	Corporate	Norton Rose	Hamburg
Ulf Liebelt-Westphal	DLA Piper	Hamburg	Finance	Norton Rose	Hamburg
Jens Suhrbier	DLA Piper	Hamburg	Finance	Norton Rose	Hamburg
Ludger Verfuerth	DLA Piper	Hamburg	Energy	Norton Rose	Hamburg
Uwe Eppler	DLA Piper	Hamburg	Financial services	Norton Rose	Hamburg
Frank Weberndoerfer	DLA Piper	Hamburg	Tax	Norton Rose	Hamburg
Flemming Moos	DLA Piper	Hamburg	Employment	Norton Rose	Hamburg
Corrado Wohlwend	DLA Piper	Frankfurt	Energy	Norton Rose	Frankfurt
Richard Spiller	Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge	London	Corporate	Holman Fenwick Willan	London
Ashwani Kochhar	Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge	London	Corporate	Holman Fenwick Willan	London
Presley Warner	Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer	London	Finance	Sullivan & Cromwell	London
Guillaume Kessler	Henri Brandford-Griffith	Paris	Corporate	Olswang	Paris
Rupert Ticehurst	Herbert Smith	London	Private equity / private wealth / charities	Berwin Leighton Paisner	London
Henry Raine	Herbert Smith	London	M&A / equity	Wonga.com	London
Pascal de Moidrey	Hogan Lovells	Paris	Corporate	Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker	Paris
Alexis Terray	Hogan Lovells	Paris	Corporate	Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker	Paris
Stephen Mavroghenis	Howrey	Brussels	Competition	Shearman & Sterling	Brussels
Trevor Soames	Howrey	Brussels	Competition	Shearman & Sterling	Brussels
Götz Drauz	Howrey	Brussels	Competition	Shearman & Sterling	Brussels
Geert Goeteyn	Howrey	Brussels	Competition	Shearman & Sterling	Brussels
Miguel Rato	Howrey	Brussels	Competition	Shearman & Sterling	Brussels
Martin Cornish	Katten Muchin Rosenman Cornish	London	Finance	K&L Gates	London
Andrea De Matteis	Labruna Mazziotti Segni	Rome	Competition	Own practice	Rome
Coralie Oger (counsel)	Latham & Watkins	Paris	Corporate	FTPA	Paris
Thomas N. Ross	Lawrence Graham	London	Commercial Dispute	K&L Gates	London
Giancarlo Castorino	Marena Castorino D’Angelo Fagotto	Milan	Corporate	d’Urso Gatti e Bianchi	Milan
Duncan Hubbard	Nabarro	London	Real estate finance	Norton Rose	London
Jonathan G Simpson	Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker	London	Projects	Hunton & Williams	London
Tomi Merenheimo	Peltonen Ruokonen & Itaine	Helsinki	Corporate	Magnusson	Helsinki
Mika Lehtimäki	Peltonen Ruokonen & Itaine	Helsinki	Corporate	Magnusson	Helsinki
Guillaume Kellner	Proskauer Rose	Paris	Corporate	Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker	Paris
Julian Turner	Reed Smith	London	Restructuring	Olswang	London
Tanguy d’Everlange	Shearman & Sterling	Paris	M&A	Kalliopé	Paris
Jani Sorsak	Slovenian Competition Protection Office (CPO)	Ljubijana	Competition/M&A	Schoenherr	Ljubijana
Jonathan Deverill	Stikeman Elliott	London	Corporate	DMH Stallard	London
Alexandre Omaggio (counsel)	Sullivan & Cromwell	Paris	Corporate	FTPA	Paris
Richard Burton	Van Bael & Bellis	Brussels	Competition	Van Bael & Bellis	Brussels
Stéphane Sabatier	Willkie Farr & Gallagher	Paris	M&A	Norton Rose	Paris

ASIA-PACIFIC
The biggest series of moves in Asia was created by the trickle of partners leaving Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker. On February 1 SNR Denton Shanghai announced that Mitchell Dudek, the former chair of the Paul Hastings’ Shanghai office, and Alex Wang would be joining its corporate and real estate practices. On February 8 across the water in Tokyo, White & Case announced that partners Jun Usami and Ayako Kawano would be joining its M&A, real estate and restructuring practices. Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe then took two high flying litigation partners to its Tokyo office.

Name	From	Location	Practice Area	To	Location
Horoaki Takahashi	Atsumi & Sakai	Tokyo	Project finance	Davis & Takahashi	Tokyo
Marina Papas	Herbert Geer	Melbourne	Commercial	Madgwick	Melbourne
Michael Cripps	Insurance Australia Group	Sydney	Corporate insurance	Clyde & Co	Shanghai
Matthew Cunningham	Mallesons	Sydney	Finance	Minter Ellison	Sydney
Glenn Cheng	Norton Rose	Singapore	Construction	Nabarro	Singapore
Niping Wu (Of counsel)	Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe	Beijing	Private equity	Debevoise & Plimpton	Shanghai
Michael Dudek	Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker	Shanghai	Corporate	SNR Denton	Shanghai
Alex Wang	Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker	Shanghai	Corporate	SNR Denton	Shanghai
Jun Usami	Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker	Tokyo	M&A	White & Case	Tokyo
Ayako Kawano	Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker	Tokyo	M&A	White & Case	Tokyo
James Kwan	Simmons & Simmons	Hong Kong	Dispute resolution	Baker & McKenzie	Hong Kong

AMERICAS
February saw an active market in the Americas. Very early in the month Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft’s New York office lost finance partner Karen Gelernt to Alston & Bird, while it had been announced on 30th January that Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe securitisation partners James Croke and Peter Manbeck would make their way across town to join the team at Chapman and Cutler.

The big UK recruiters Greenberg Traurig and Reed Smith both lost partners in New York. Greenberg’s M&A partner Stephen Mallenbaum and leveraged finance guru Sean Hayes defected to SNR Denton to bolster the firm’s Venture Technology Group, while Reed Smith’s Michael Smith took a place in the finance and corporate team at Kaye Scholar. Smith brings with him an especially good track record in cross-border transactions. Across town DLA Piper lost tax partner Brian Andreoli to Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, which also managed to recruit the firm’s energy of counsel Aaron Ball.

The last big moves in New York in February included the lateral hire of derivatives partner Conrad Bahlke, who left Weil Gotshal & Manges to set up office at the derivatives and commodities practice of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, and corporate and securities partner Andrew Hulsh leave Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld to take up a place at Mayer Brown as co-leader of the US private equity practice. Vinson & Elkins nabbed two energy partners from O'Melveny & Myers.

Elsewhere in the US, Hogan Lovells Houston bolstered its infrastructure team with new recruits David Locascio and Jose Luis Vittor from rival McDermott Will & Emery and King & Spalding poached banking partner Scott Stengel from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe in Washington DC, bringing Orrick’s tally over the month to three US partner losses. Stengel, a specialist in bank regulatory, capital markets and restructuring, will join the firm’s capital transactions and real estate practice.

North of the border, Gowling Lafleur Henderson made the news in Canada with two partner hires in Montreal and Toronto. The first saw corporate finance partner Marc-André Godard leave McCarthy Tétrault, while the second saw financial services partner Vickie Wong leave Fraser Milner Casgrain.

Name	From	Location	Practice Area	To	Location
Andrew Hulsh	Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld	New York	Corporate / securities	Mayer Brown	New York
Dwight Smith	Alston & Bird	Washington DC	Financial services	Morrison & Foerster	Washington DC
Rose Shiner	Bingham McCutchen	Los Angeles	Entertainment / finance	Sheppard Mullin, Richter & Hampton	Los Angeles
Karen Gelernt	Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft	New York	Finance	Alston & Bird	New York
Lawrence Berkovich	Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft	Charlotte	Finance / real estate	Dechert	Charlotte
Luis Lucero	Cárdenas Di Ció Romero Tarsitano & Lucero	Buenos Aires	Natural resources	Marval O’Farrell & Mairal	Buenos Aires
Mark Rosman	Department of Justice	Washington DC	Antitrust	Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati	Washington DC
Brian Andreoli	DLA Piper	New York	Tax	Squire Sanders & Dempsey	New York
John Casais	Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge	Boston	Banking / finance	Jones Day	Boston
Vickie Wong	Fraser Milner Casgrain	Toronto	Financial services	Gowling Lafleur Henderson	Toronto
Edward Rendell	Governership of Pennsylvania	Philadelphia	PPP	Ballard Spahr	Philadelphia
Stephen Mallenbaum	Greenberg Traurig	New York	M&A	SNR Denton	New York
Sean Hayes	Greenberg Traurig	New York	Leveraged finance	SNR Denton	New York
Francisco Cerezo	Greenberg Traurig	Miami	Corporate	Foley & Lardner	Miami
Steven McSloy	Hughes Hubbard & Reed	New York	Tribal finance	SNR Denton	Dallas
Jeffrey Fine	K&L Gates	Dallas	Bankruptcy / restructuring	Dykema Gossett	Dallas
Edward Eisert	K&L Gates	New York	Corporate	Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe	New York
Jose Miguel Barragan	KPMG	Mexico City	Tax	Jones Day	Mexico City
Marc-André Godard	McCarthy Tétrault	Montreal	Corporate finance	Gowling Lafleur Henderson	Montreal
David Locascio	McDermott Will & Emery	Houston	Infrastructure	Hogan Lovells	Houston
Jose Luis Vittor	McDermott Will & Emery	Houston	Infrastructure	Hogan Lovells	Houston
Keith Fisher	Mintz Levin Cohn, Ferris Glovsky and Popeo	Washington DC	Bank Regulatory	Ballard Spahr	Washington DC
Todd Triller	O’Melveny & Myers	New York	Energy	Vinson & Elkins	New York
Maritza Okata	O’Melveny & Myers	New York	Energy	Vinson & Elkins	New York
James Croke	Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe	New York	Securitisation	Chapman and Cutler	New York
Peter Manbeck	Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe	New York	Securitisation	Chapman and Cutler	New York
Scott Stengel	Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe	Washington DC	Banking / finance	King & Spalding	Washington DC
Michael Smith	Reed Smith	New York	Finance and corporate	Kaye Scholar	New York
Conrad Bahlke	Weil Gotshal & Manges	New York	Derivatives	Stroock & Stroock & Lavan	New York
Aaron Ball (Of counsel)			Energy	Squire Sanders & Dempsey	Houston

GLOBAL MANAGEMENT
February was busy on the management side with appointments being announced throughout the month.

Herbert Smith finally found a suitable replacement for the position of global head of oil & gas, which had been occupied by Paul Griffin until May 2010. The firm appointed energy, resources and projects partner Stephen Murray to the role with immediate effect. Spanish firm Garrigues appointed a new managing partner to its London office to replace the departing Guillermo Muñoz-Alonso. Ignacio Corbera Dale took the up the position in February.

One of the most interesting appointments happened in Beijing, where Robert Lewis accepted the offer to become international managing partner for local Chinese firm Zhong Lun Law Firm. Lewis, the former managing partner of Lovells’ Beijing office and more recently a partner of Shanghai based Allbright Law Office, is one of the first senior foreign lawyers to take up a position in a local firm. Lewis will manage the firm’s international relationships.

The business community picked up a number of highflyers, including British Airways’ appointment of Andrew Fleming as head of legal, Apollo Global Management’s hire of Paul Loynes as European head of legal and Wonga’s recruitment of Herbert Smith’s former partner Henry Raine as general counsel.

Name	Firm/Company	Location	Practice Area	New position	Replacing	Effective from
Paul Loynes	Apollo Global Management	London	Private equity	European head of legal	-	3/2/11
Christopher Clerenc	August & Debouzy	Paris	Competition	Head of competion Paris/Brussels	-	3/2/11
Andrew Fleming	British Airways	London	-	Head of legal	-	10/2/11
Simon Margolis	Bull Housser & Tupper	Vancouver	Commercial litigation	Managing partner	Herb Isherwood	23/2/11
Pauliina Tenhunen	Castrén & Snellman	Finland	Corporate and insolvency	Managing partner	Jukka Niemi	1/2/11
Cornelius Brandi	CMS Hasche Sigle			Chairman of the executive committee	Dick Tyler
Matthew Gorman	CMS Hasche Sigle	Frankfurt		Executive director	Dick Tyler	1/7/11
David Harrel	CPA Global	London	-	Chairman	-	9/2/11
James Jamison	Deloitte	Beijing	Litigation	General counsel	Peter Griffiths	7/3/11
Tom Bridgford	Eversheds	Manchester	IP	Managing partner	-	23/2/11
Ignacio Corbera Dale	Garrigues	London	M&A and corporate	Managing partner	Guillermo Muñoz-Alonso	1/2/11
Stephen Murray	Herbert Smith	London	Energy / Resources / Projects	Global head oil & gas	Paul Griffin (left 01/05/10)	22/2/11
Tanguy d'Everlange	Kalliopé	Paris	M&A	Head of M&A	-	10/2/11
Jan Vincent Lindemans	Liedekerke Wolters Waelbroeck Kirkpatrick	Brussels	Insolvency	Managing partner	-	10/2/11
Santiago Concha	Pinilla, Gonzalez & Prieto	Bogotá	Corporate / M&A	Partner in charge of corporate department and foreign investment	-	22/2/11
Alexander Korff	ValidSoft	London	-	General counsel	-	1/2/11
Robert Lewis	Zhong Lun Law Firm	Beijing		International managing partner		16/2/11

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