Headline partner moves in London - March, April & May June to September 2017

The latest round up of lateral partner moves in London.


New Partner Promotions	New Partner Promotions	New Partner Promotions	New Partner Promotions
Name	To	From	Practice Area	Notes
Robert Gross	Asserson Law Offices	Berwin Leighton Paisner	Finance and infrastructure	Robert Gross has more than 25 years’ experience acting for leading international law firms, the majority of that time as a partner, including most recently 13 years as a partner at Berwin Leighton Paisner. His clients include banks and multilateral lending institutions, infrastructure investment funds, private equity fund managers and borrowers, with a strong emphasis on cross-border work.
Murdoch Currie	Bates Wells Braithewaite	Berwin Leighton Paisner	Corporate & Commercial	Murdoch Currie has over 25 years’ experience as a corporate lawyer, having previously worked for 17 years as a partner in BLP’s corporate practice group. In his role, he will continue to advise on corporate transactions in a variety of areas and sectors, including financial services, technology and real estate. He has extensive M&A and equity capital markets experience.
Shanan Dunstan	Berwin Leighton Paisner	Ashurt	Banking	Shanan Dunstan is set to join the firm in September from Ashurst. She has experience of advising on domestic and cross-border banking and leveraged finance transactions.
Matthew Smith	Bircham Dyson Bell	Capsticks	Public law litigation	With over 20 years’ experience in both contentious and non-contentious public law, Matthew advises a diverse range of clients. In his litigation work, he has been instructed in a number of the most significant public law inquiries in recent years – including the Bloody Sunday and the Hutton Inquiries – as well as acting in matters before the European Court of Human Rights. He has also worked at the Home Office and for the Treasury Solicitor’s Department and HM Treasury.
Samrad Nazer	Bird & Bird	Locke Lord	Banking and finance	Samrad has particular expertise in banking but also has experience working in a number of Bird & Bird’s sectors including energy & utilities, fintech and sport. He advises on both lender and borrower side transactions within the areas of corporate finance, general corporate lending and structured finance. In addition to the more traditional areas, he also advises on debt capital markets and structured finance. He has experience in both regional and cross-border transactions, with a focus on the mid-markets and US deals.
Mathew Kidwell	Blake Morgan	Mayer Brown	Corporate	Mathew has more than 20 years’ experience in the energy sector, which includes acquisitions and divestitures, farm-ins and farm-outs, petroleum licensing and concessions, project development, construction and joint ventures.
Prashant Dave	Blake Morgan	Hilmi + Partners	Real estate	Prashant is a specialist commercial property lawyer, as a partner in the London real estate team. Dave has extensive experience in property development, landlord and tenant, and the retail and leisure sector with a particular specialist in restaurants. He will focus on the real estate and built environment division’s retail and leisure work
Emily Brand	Boodle Hatfield	Winckworth Sherwood	Family	Emily has particular experience in high-value financial proceedings and international children disputes.
Udo Onwere	Bray & Kras	Farrer & Co	Sports	Prior to becoming a qualified solicitor, Udo Onwere was a professional footballer, having played for clubs including Fulham Football Club. He advises high-profile sports individuals, particularly professional footballers, across a range of sports and private client legal issues including all aspects of tax and estate planning, wills, trusts, Court of Protection matters and powers of attorney as well as contractual negotiations with agents and clubs. He advises a number of clients with their own businesses, focusing on the creation of family trusts, lifetime settlements and succession planning.
Catherine Rustomji	Browne Jacobson	DWF	Charity law	Catherine is a highly experienced charities lawyer who has extensive experience in advising on matters around charity law and regulation, with a particular focus on governance, constitutional issues and charity trustees.
Neil Archeson-Gray	Carter Lemon Camerons	Rollingsons Solicitors	Private Client	Neil has more than 30 years’ experience and advises on matters including claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family & Dependents) Act 1975, contested wills, estate planning, wills, probate, trust creation and administration, Court of Protection, and lasting power of attorney.
Gemma Brannigan	Clyde & Co	Capsticks	Healthcare	Gemma is a healthcare lawyer with 13 years’ experience, as a non-practising barrister and solicitor advocate, and more recently as assistant coroner for West London. Her practice focuses on healthcare claims and investigations involving deaths in the medical and care sector and with security services. She has extensive experience representing healthcare staff and the NHS at inquests following a death in custody or prior to a HSE prosecution.
Rod Freeman	Cooley	Hogan Lovells	Products law	In addition to representing major technology companies, Rod advises international consumer product manufacturers and retailers on the issues that flow from product defects and other challenges around the world, including formulating strategies in defence of litigation and regulatory action brought against those companies. He also has significant experience working in the automotive and life sciences sectors.
Michelle Linderman	Crowell & Moring	Ince & Co	International Trade	Michelle advises on matters related to trade and financial sanctions, including due diligence and compliance procedures; the impact of sanctions on operations and transactions; sanctions clauses in contracts and insurance policies; the effect of sanctions on loans, investments, and payment issues; and applications to relevant authorities for licenses and authorisations. Her clients include international businesses, traders, ship owners, charterers, insurers, financial institutions, and energy companies. Linderman will lead the firm’s efforts on EU sanctions generally and UK sanctions specifically. In addition to her sanctions work, Linderman handles litigation in relation to a wide variety of shipping and commercial disputes including fraud. She represents clients in ad hoc arbitrations and also in mediations and proceedings in the High Court. She has extensive experience in dispute resolution in other jurisdictions, including Hong Kong, New York, and South Africa.
Alex Tostevin	Dentons	Weil Gotshal & Manges	Tax	Alex Tostevin advises both UK and international clients on all areas of tax. His clients range from sovereign wealth funds and private equity houses to multinational organisations and financial institutions. His areas of specialty include real estate, infrastructure, financial services, energy, technology and indirect taxation.
Christiano Bortolotti	Dentons	Transfer Pricing Global Solutions	Tax	Dentons has appointed Cristiano Bortolotti as a transfer pricing partner in the tax practice. He will work closely with the Luxembourg office, while also developing and assisting more broadly the tax practice in Benelux and Europe as a whole. Christiano Bortolotti joins Dentons from Transfer Pricing Global Solutions, a boutique consulting firm which he founded to assist major law firms and clients with transfer pricing issues.
Jonathan Polin	Dentons	Howard Kennedy	Corporate	Jonathan’s focus is on international M&A and disposals of both private and public companies, listings on AIM and the London Stock Exchange, and advising on hostile and recommended public takeovers. He also specialises in the corporate aspects of restructuring and distressed sales, UK and European real estate deals, and acting for betting and gaming companies.
Dan Moan	Devonshires	Kingsley Napley	Real estate and projects	Dan has over 15 years’ experience. His expertise includes advising on office and industrial lettings for both landlords and tenants, sales and acquisitions of commercial property for investors and developers, asset management, corporate acquisitions, property finance and the restructuring of property portfolios.
Robert Turner	Devonshires	Dentons	Projects / construction	Robert has extensive experience in projects in the transport, defence health, education, energy and accommodation sectors.
Ben Brown	DLA Piper	Allen & Overy	Tax	Ben Brown specialises in the taxation aspects of corporate and financing transactions, both with a UK and international flavour. He regularly advised on UK and international tax aspects of M&A, corporate transactions and finance work as well as VAT matters.
Andrew Campbell	Doyle Clayton	Slaughter and May	Pensions	Andrew Campbell has more than 10 years’ experience in pensions law and has developed a practice focused on assisting sponsors of defined benefit schemes in managing the legal and regulatory risks associated with these arrangements, through scheme closures, benefit redesign proposals, the associated employment and consultation aspects of these changes and other liability management exercises. He also has experience in advising on the growth of defined contribution arrangements, and on recent changes to the pensions tax regime and pensions auto-enrolment obligations.
Antony Woodhouse	DWF	Gowling WLG	Insurance	Antony specialises in international and cross-border disputes. His practice includes advising insurance and reinsurance companies, Lloyd’s syndicates and intermediaries in litigation, mediations and arbitration and he has extensive expertise in Bermuda Form matters. His expertise comprises advising clients on energy risks, including property and business interruption, general and professional liability, subrogation issues, D&O, E&O and financial lines coverage. His reinsurance disputes experience has seen Woodhouse handling matters following natural disasters, such as Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita as well as major energy plant explosions.
Mark Shepherd	DWF	Paul Hastings	Real Estate	Mark specialises in a broad range of transactional real estate work. Having originally trained at the Bar, Shepherd has more than 15 years’ experience in the field. His focus is in respect of commercial real estate transactional work acting for a broad spectrum of clients on investment acquisition transactions, joint venture arrangements, development and landlord and tenant. He also has significant experience advising on the real estate aspects of large corporate and financial transactions.
Will Marshall	DWF	Capsticks	Clinical Negligence	Will Marshall has 20 years’ experience in clinical negligence and advises on issues including high volume, delegated authority claims, and maximum severity injury cases, including cases involving brain damage, serious neurological injury, fatal accidents and surgical claims. His clients include insurers, individual self-employed consultants, private healthcare providers, hospitals, clinics, health sector staffing agencies, services ancillary to medicine, pharmacists, physiotherapists, paramedics, mental health and addiction rehabilitation services, cosmetic clinics, body artists, salons and sexual health and family planning services.
John Young	Edwin Coe	Mishcon de Reya	Corporate	John specialises in corporate law, focusing primarily on the business needs of entrepreneurs, SMEs and family businesses. He has particular expertise in advising on investments into businesses, the sale and purchase of businesses, joint ventures, and shareholders agreements both in the UK and internationally.
Chris Hastings	Eversheds Sutherland	Ropes & Gray	Banking	Chris Hastings's clients comprise lenders and borrowers, including sponsors, banks and debt funds based within the UK and the US. He provides advice on a broad range of domestic and cross-border transactions across leveraged and acquisition financing, direct lending, fund finance and distressed or opportunistic debt investments.
Dougall Molson	Fieldfisher	Freshfields	Finance	Dougall specialises in complex structured finance, commodity finance and derivatives.
Stephen Moller	Fieldfisher	K&L Gates	Finance	Stephen specialises in structured finance, including receivables financing, supply chain finance and securitisation. He has an established practice in the alternative finance market and works with technology platforms to originate and acquire financial assets.
Stewart Perry	Fieldfisher	Clyde & Co	Insolvency and restructuring	Stewart specialises in all aspects of contentious and non-contentious insolvency work and primarily acts for insolvency practitioners, various categories of financier and directors of distressed companies. He chairs the R3 (the association of business recovery professionals) general technical committee, as well as sitting on their national council. Perry has a particular focus on the oil and gas sector and is instructed by a broad range of clients including global operators and contractors.
Alex Haffner	Fladgate	Dentons	competition, regulatory and commercial	Alex Haffner has significant experience dealing with UK, EU and international competition and regulatory authorities and has been involved in a number of contentious competition and regulatory cases before the courts. His practice also includes the provision of regulatory and broader commercial advice to clients in the sports, media and telecoms sectors.
Andrea London	Fletcher Day	Rosenblatt Solicitors	Employment	Andrea London has joined the firm as a partner and head of the employment department. She advises on contentious and non-contentious matters in the context of corporate activities and general employment litigation.
Karim Assaad	Fletcher Day	Cordell & Cordell	Family	Karim Assaad specialises in providing advice and guidance on all aspects of law relating to men’s divorce and father’s rights.
Neil Pfister	Fletcher Day	Downs Solicitors	Corporate and commercial	Before entering law Neil Pfister set up an IT company specialising in providing bespoke software to local government. He began his legal career at Fisher Meredith before joining Downs Solicitors in 2012. He became a partner in 2014, and head of corporate and commercial in 2015. He advises commercial clients on structuring businesses, buying and selling companies, partnerships, LLPs, or sole trader businesses. He advises the telecoms, media and technology sectors on matters including IT and internet start up advice, as well as intellectual property matters. He also advises on terms and conditions, agency agreements, confidentiality/NDAs, consultancy, distribution, e-commerce, franchising and intellectual property law.
Wayne O'Neil	Fletcher Day	Maclay Murray & Spens LLP	Corporate	Wayne O’Neil has extensive corporate experience and his sector experience includes media, gaming, technology, hospitality and leisure, retail, manufacturing, healthcare and renewables. He acts for corporate institutions, private equity houses, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and management teams on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, equity and debt restructuring, shareholders arrangements and corporate finance matters.
Darren Rogers & Patrick Williams	Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson	Ashurt	Corporate real estate	Darren Rogers and Patrick Williams have developed a strong UK-focused real estate investment practice, having worked together for more than a decade. They join from Ashurst, where they are partners in the real estate practice. Darren has a principal focus on joint venture arrangements, acquisitions and dispositions. His client base is dominated by real estate funds, offshore sovereign funds and other investors in real estate. Patrick represents clients in relation to the property aspects of investment, acquisition and disposition transactions, development projects and significant leasing transactions.
Anna Howell	Gibson Dunn & Crutcher	Herbert Smith Freehills	Energy	Anna handles complex cross-border transactions in the energy sector. Her corporate practice covers mergers and acquisitions, project development and financing. She works primarily in energy and infrastructure industries, with a focus in the oil and gas, liquefied natural gas and power sub-sectors. She has experience in both mature and emerging markets throughout Europe, Africa, Latin America, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East, including companies’ first entries into those regions. Howell, who served as co-head of HSF’s global energy group, practised with the firm since 1996. She worked from its London, Hong Kong, and Singapore offices and led the Asian energy practice during her ten-year tenure in Asia.
Jeffery Sullivan	Gibson Dunn & Crutcher	Allen & Overy	Arbitration	Jeffery practises international commercial and investment treaty arbitration. He has particular expertise in public international law (PIL). He regularly represents clients in the energy, infrastructure and private equity sector, in which he is known for spearheading multiple Energy Charter Treaty arbitrations against the Kingdom of Spain relating to the regulation of the Spanish renewable energy sector. Sullivan is an advisory board member of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA), a member of both the Energy Charter Treaty Secretariat’s Legal Advisory Task Force and UNCTAD’s Investment Experts Group, and sits on the executive board of the European Federation for Investment Law and Arbitration (EFILA).
Tom Ferns and Nick Foss-Pederse	Haynes & Boone	Rosenblatt	Corporate	Tom Ferns and Nick Foss-Pederse practices focus on mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings and capital markets and securities work, private equity and venture capital transactions, and other corporate transactions. Their sector experience includes technology, financial services, media and energy. Ferns has handled buy and sell side M&A, IPOs, secondary fundraisings, public to private transactions, and management buy ins and buy outs. Tom was previously a partner in the London office of Rosenblatt Solicitors and was head of the firm’s corporate practice. Nick has likewise handled a broad range of corporate transactions, including public and private acquisitions and disposals, IPOs and equity fundraisings, and investments and joint ventures. He was previously a partner in the London office of Rosenblatt Solicitors.
Brian Spiro	Herbert Smith Freehills	BCL Solicitors	Crime litigation	Brian specialises in ‘high loss’ business crime litigation, fraud and regulatory matters including Serious Fraud Office, Crown Prosecution Service and HM Revenue & Customs prosecutions and investigations. He has expertise in international law including mutual legal assistance in criminal matter, environmental offences and breach of UN sanctions. He also has experience of advising media organisations on crime and related matters and representing high profile individuals.
Angela Nunn	Hodge Jones & Allen	Sternberg Reed	catastrophic injury	Angela Nunn was previously head of the personal injury team at Sternberg Reed in Barking, as well as being responsible for the firm’s court of protection team. She has extensive experience of representing clients suffering serious injury, particularly head and brain injuries, amputations and life limiting conditions. She worked at Sternberg Reed for 26 years, qualifying there as a solicitor before becoming equity partner in 2000.
James Bell	Hodge Jones & Allen	Slater and Gordon	Medical negligence	James has more than 20 years’ experience, particularly in high value complex cases involving brain haemorrhage, delayed diagnosis of cancer, cerebral palsy, spinal injuries and amputation
Guy Fearon	Humphries Kirk	Decimus Fearon	Private Client	Guy specialises in all aspects of conveyancing and acts for private clients, investment companies and developers. He also handles all aspects of acquisition, disposal and on-going management of commercial and residential property.
Adrian Barlow	Irwin Mitchell	Pinsent Masons	Real estate	Adrian's client focus is in advising both public and private sector organisations in project strategy and the implementation of real estate portfolio and business change management from a legal perspective. During his 30 year career at Pinsent Masons, Adrian was the senior sponsor of the diversity & inclusion agenda. He is a trustee of the Ouseley Trust and sits on the charity’s main board and finance committee.
Mark Wesseldine & Fergus Wheeler	King & Spalding	Ropes & Gray	Finance	Mark Wesseldine represents private credit funds and alternative capital providers on cross-border leveraged buy-out financings, special situation investments and restructuring transactions. His client base covers international credit funds, financial institutions, specialist senior loan and subordinated credit investors and other private investors in senior and junior capital financings, such as first lien loans, mezzanine loans and notes, and private high yield or PIK notes. Fergus Wheeler’s practice also focuses on representing private credit funds and alternative capital providers, including sovereign wealth funds. His portfolio includes advising on direct lending, hybrid unitranche structures, leveraged acquisition financing and special situations, with a particular focus on junior capital investment.
Rachel Freeman	Kingsley Napley	Miles Preston & Co	Family	Rachel Freeman joins as a new partner in its family and divorce team. She practises in all areas of private family work, with a focus in complex financial proceedings, often with international aspects and for high net worth individuals, and in arrangements for children.
Julian Ward	Lee & Thompson	Hamlins LLP	IP & Technology	Julian is a digital media, IP and technology lawyer with over 16 years’ experience working across the creative industries advising clients on all matters relating to digital content, entertainment and publishing. He has particular expertise in the video games industry and the digital broadcasting and content sector - online, on mobile and in social media - and works closely with UK and international developers, publishers, broadcasters, rights holders, tech entrepreneurs and innovators.
Ben Henry	Locke Lord	Bird & Bird	Real Estate and finance	Ben Henry has represented a variety of organisations on numerous commercial real estate transactions. He has focused on the data centre industry since 2008, working closely with clients and advisors to develop contractual documentation for both operators and customers. He also has experience in corporate real estate and landlord and tenant representation.
Sean Donovan-Smith	Locke Lord	K&L Gates	Investment adviser & alternative funds practice	Sean Donovan-Smith has almost 20 years of experience in the financial services industry and will add private fund, including private equity, and investment adviser capabilities. He has acted for a range of clients, including funds, managers, advisers and institutional investors. He focuses his practice in financial services and markets regulatory advice, regulatory enforcement and investigations, advising on regulated and unregulated funds and the international marketing of funds, and other financial products. He has a broad range of experience dealing with complex financial services matters, including regulatory interventions/transactions, derivative and futures products, regulatory compliance, risk management, FSMA/FCA requirements and cross-border regulatory issues.
Jeremy Davis	McGuireWoods LLP	K&L Gates	Corporate	Jeremy Davis has extensive experience in cross-border mergers and acquisitions involving US investment in Europe. He advises client in industries including metals, packaging, manufacturing and information technology.
Lorraine Vaz	McGuireWoods LLP	King & Wood Mallesons	finance	Lorraine Vas works on both lender and borrower financings, and her clients include banks, debt funds and other financial institutions, as well as private equity sponsors.
David Leibowitz	Mishcon de Reya	Berwin Leighton Paisner	Dispute resolution	David regularly acts for banks, insolvency practitioners, trade creditors, directors, shareholders, the Insolvency Service and foreign lawyers on both domestic and cross border insolvencies. He has extensive insolvency litigation experience particularly in the context of fraud, cases concerning validity of security, asset recovery, guarantees, director’s duties, office holders duties, transaction avoidance and disqualification proceedings. He has particular expertise in restructuring and insolvency assignments in the insurance and financial services industries and the interaction between FSMA and the Insolvency Act.
Filippo Noseda	Mishcon de Reya	Withers	Private	Filippo Noseda is a dual qualified English solicitor and Swiss lawyer; he joins the firm after 14 years at Withers, where he was joint head of the European private client and tax department. He advises on the establishment and restructuring of both trusts and foundations as well as on UK and international tax and succession planning issues, including family governance and disputes.
Joanna Lampert	Mishcon de Reya	Berwin Leighton Paisner	Real estate	Joanna has over 20 years’ experience specialising in property disputes and risk analysis, advisory and avoidance work. She provides strategic advice to owners, occupiers, developers and funders of commercial and residential real estate and deals with all contentious aspects of real estate. This includes development disputes, landlord and tenant disputes (including rent and service charge recovery, lease renewals, consents, forfeiture and possession claims), title, right of way and right to light disputes, real estate related professional negligence claims and insolvency and corporate recovery work.
Archie Sherbrooke	Moore Blatch	Charles Russell Speechlys	Real estate	Archie focuses on investment transactions including acquisitions and disposals of multi-let buildings, hotels, and retail property. He has acted for clients including UK institutional property and investment funds, trusts, banks, corporate occupiers, family offices, charities and overseas investors.
Chris Warren-Smith	Morgan Lewis	Norton Rose Fulbright	Dispute resolution	Chris will serve in a global leadership role in Morgan Lewis’s global white collar, corporate investigations, and sanctions practice. He advises clients on corruption, fraud, financial crime, and other regulatory and compliance issues. He also represents clients in regulatory enforcement proceedings, corporate investigations, and commercial and international dispute resolution. With a focus on banking, financial services, and professional organisations and insurers in civil and regulatory proceedings. His investigations experience covers regulators in the UK, the US and many other jurisdictions.
Melanie Ryan	Morgan Lewis	Norton Rose Fulbright	Dispute resolution	Melanie has represented corporations, financial institutions, professionals, and other clients in corruption and securities investigations. She has significant experience in corporate and regulatory investigations and related enforcement proceedings, and advises clients across a range of sectors with a focus on banking, energy, and financial services.
Jacqui Hatfield	Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe	Reed Smith	Tech	Jacqui Hatfield will bring more than two decades of regulatory experience across the financial services sector, advising emerging fintech companies, including payment service providers, peer to peer lending platforms, app payment providers, robo advisers, as well as traditional institutions, including banks, fund managers, fund platforms, asset managers and brokers, both in the UK and across Europe and the United States. She advises clients on issues relating to authorisation, structuring, outsourcing, conduct of business, market abuse, money laundering, payment services and consumer credit.
Hanna Basha	Payne Hicks Beach	Hill Dickinson	Privacy and media	Hanna is a specialist in defamation, privacy and breach of confidence, with extensive experience in reputation and crisis management. She advises prominent individuals and corporations to prevent the publication of private, sensitive and confidential information and defamatory allegations in the media.
Nick Vamos	Peters & Peters	Crown Prosecution Service	Crime	Nick Vamos has some 20 years criminal law experience, focusing on international criminal investigations, high-profile and sensitive matters and corporate manslaughter cases. He is a qualified barrister and has held a number of high level posts at the CPS, including as head of extradition, head of the UK central authority for mutual legal assistance, and the UK liaison prosecutor in Washington DC. He has provided direction on legal areas such as corporate manslaughter, medical manslaughter, and political and police corruption. Most recently he oversaw the election campaign expenses cases and was responsible for managing the prosecution team dealing with the investigation into the Hillsborough disaster.
Christopher Harrison	Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman	Mayer Brown	Finance	Christopher has more than 20 years’ experience representing financial institutions, underwriters, investment fund sponsors, corporate and government entities on cross-border leveraged finance and debt capital markets transactions. He works on complex leveraged finance and debt capital markets deals around the world across a broad array of industries. He also advises on transactions involving enterprises in the energy, transportation, real estate, telecommunications, media and financial services sectors
Trevor Wood	Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman	Mayer Brown	Finance	Trevor represents banks, funds and other financial institutions, mezzanine providers, agents and trustees, and sponsors and borrowers in secured and unsecured financings. His principal focus is on international trade, export and commodity finance, receivable transactions, non-performing loan sale and purchase, real estate finance, leverage and acquisitions finance and general corporate finance.
Tom Ince	PwC	Reed Smith	Employment	Tom Ince has experience in all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment law. He has particular expertise in outsourcing and commercial transactions covering multiple jurisdictions and within central and local government. He has also worked on large and complex restructuring projects. At PwC, Ince will lead on employment matters inherent in outsourcing.
Mark Hastings	Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan	Addleshaw Goddard	Dispute resolution	Mark's practice includes high value fraud and trust litigations, asset tracing, contractual and warranty disputes, shareholder disputes, and contentious insolvency. He is experienced in executing and advising on pre-action third-party disclosure orders, freezing injunctions, and search orders. Many of his cases involve cross-border issues and proceedings in other jurisdictions. Hastings has particular expertise in disputes originating in Russia and the Middle East.
Liesl Fichardt	Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan	Clifford Chance	Dispute resolution	Lisa advises on all areas of international tax disputes including complex investigations, raids by tax authorities, settlement of disputes and litigation, organisational and reputational risk issues, and strategic discussions with tax authorities.
Ingrid Silver	Reed Smith	Dentons	Entertainment and media	Ingrid Silver advises on corporate transactions as well as providing commercial and regulatory advice to the media and entertainment sector, with a particular emphasis on broadcast and television, including interactive, online and mobile content services.
Jane Howard	Reed Smith	Gowling WLG	Dispute resolution	Jane Howard specialises in handling disputes for accountancy firms, including defending claims and handling regulatory and disciplinary matters. She has more than 20 years’ experience as a litigator and is a member of the audit and assurance special interest group at the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
Petar Orlic	Reed Smith	Faegre Baker Daniels	Real estate	Petar advises on commercial real estate acquisitions and development, real estate finance, and real estate management in the UK and across Europe. He has significant experience in central and eastern Europe. His clients include investors, developers and banks.
Jon Bartley	Reynolds Porter Chamberlain	Penningtons Manches	Commercial	With over 20 years’ experience, Jon Bartley advises on a broad range of commercial matters for domestic and international clients, including digital implementation, ecommerce, consumer, and data protection.
Adrian Taylor	Rosenblatt	Locke Lord	Dispute resolution	Adrian specialises in international arbitration, litigation and ADR and has specific experience in the construction industry.
Donna Goldsworthy	Rosenblatt	Irwin Mitchell	Dispute resolution	Donna has particular experience in F1 and Formula E sports, as well as in financial services and construction
Noel Deans	Rosenblatt	Bivonas	Employment	Noel is a former practising barrister and joins from Bivonas having also worked as head of employment, pensions and incentives in the London office at K&L Gates LLP.
Jim Dennis	Simkins LLP	Davenport Lyons (Gordon Dadds)	Intellectual Property	Jim is an intellectual property litigator specialising in brands and has extensive experience in the fields of trade mark and copyright litigation, as well as trade mark prosecution.
Susan Thompson	Simkins LLP	Magrath LLP	Employment	Susan is an experienced employment lawyer who works with employers and senior individuals in all areas of employment law, including partnership disputes
Chris Walton	Simmons & Simmons	Clifford Chance	Corporate	Chris Walton will join the firm on 1 September 2017 having previously been a partner at Clifford Chance in London for over 16 years. He advises on a wide range of equity and debt capital markets and other corporate finance transactions in the EMEA region. He has represented corporate issuers and selling securityholders in US and international securities as well as US and international investment banking firms acting as underwriters in public and private offerings of equity and debt securities.
Richard Youle & Katja Butler	Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom	White & Case	Private equity	Richard Youle was co-head of both the global and Europe, Middle East and Africa divisions of the private equity group at his previous firm, from which Katja Butler is also joining. He advises private equity houses and financial sponsor clients on all forms of leveraged M&A and portfolio assistance, including restructuring. Katja focuses on transactional private equity, particularly issues impacting capital structures, and assists portfolio companies between buyout and exit.
David Hughes	Stewarts Law	Dechert	Dispute resolution	David has extensive experience, in particular advising governments, sovereign funds and institutional clients on complex fraud and regulatory issues. He also has significant experience in conducting financial regulatory reviews.
Graham Samuel-Gibbon	Taylor Wessing	Ernst & Young	International Tax services	Graham is an experienced international tax specialist with experience in advising a range of UK and foreign-based multinational groups on a variety of transactional and non-transactional tax matters, including cross-border tax structuring, planning and risk management. He also specialises in tax matters relating to the development, ownership and exploitation of intellectual property rights. His sector experience covers the life sciences and technology, media and communications sectors.
Kenneth Maxwell	Veale Wasbrough Vizards	CMS	Commercial property	Kenneth Maxwell has over 30 years’ experience in property finance, specialising in property investment, acquisition and also development finance as well as bank debt restructurings.
Bill Gibson	Vedder Price	Dentons	Aviation finance	Bill focuses his practice on commercial aviation, acting for financiers, lessors and airlines on a broad range of cross-border leading and financing transactions.
Colin Graham	Watson Farley & Williams	Orrick, Herrington &Sutclifee	Oil and Gas	Colin Graham has 18 years’ experience advising on complex, cross-border matters in the energy and power sectors. He focuses on merger and acquisition transactions and project development in the upstream oil and gas sector and has advised on major oil pipeline projects, across the LNG value chain, and on the development of gas-to-power projects.
Louise Mor	Watson Farley & Williams	White & Case	Transport	Louise Mor specialises in rail, aviation and equipment financing, with extensive experience advising on complex structured financings, asset portfolio financings, operating leases, ECA-backed financings, PDP financing, off-balance sheet structures and asset sales and purchases. The geographic spread of her client base is extremely broad, encompassing a wide range of clients from lenders in Europe and the US, to European rolling stock lessors and operators, to export credit agencies and private entities worldwide.
Stephen Parker	Watson Farley & Williams	Paul Hastings	Corporate	Stephen Parker's practice covers both contentious and transactional work, with special expertise in restructuring and insolvency matters and banking and finance litigation. His client base is equally diverse, encompassing investment banks, hedge funds, private equity investors, CMBS servicers and corporates.
Blair Adams	Wedlake Bell	DMH Stallard	Employment	Blair specialises in corporate employment matters, where he regularly advises clients on a wide range of employment issues, from the TUPE regulations and outsourcing transactions, through to substantial discrimination claims and founder/director/shareholder disputes. He advises clients in cross- jurisdictional cases, including pan-European restructurings. He has a broad client base stretching across private equity; technology, media, and telecommunications (TMT); logistics and energy; with considerable experience advising businesses in the financial services sector. His clients include investment fund managers, owner-managed businesses, global corporations and family offices.
Justin Watts & Matthew Shade	WilmerHale	Freshfields	IP Litigation	Together Justin Watts & Matthew Shade bring more than 30 years of combined practice, with experience in a wide range of technologies, including cell phones, pharmaceutical products, semiconductors and aero engines. Justin Watts has handled complex, multinational disputes, often involving the intersection of antitrust and intellectual property. He has appeared before UK courts and high courts of Northern Ireland and Singapore, and has coordinated international patent litigation in the US, Germany and the Netherlands. His clients span a range of industries from pharmaceutical and medical device to technology, media and communications. Matthew Shade’s work focuses on complex multijurisdictional patent cases and he often deals with the interface of intellectual property and antitrust law. He has practised before the English courts and the European Patent Office. His clients span industries from pharmaceuticals and medical devices to consumer electronics.
Andrew Shindler	Locke Lord	King & Wood Mallesons	Corporate	Andrew Shindler has joined Locke Lord’s London office as a partner in the firm’s corporate practice group. He has a broad range of experience working in commercial, technology and intellectual property law within all major sectors, with a particular focus on the life sciences, IT, digital commerce, data, consumer and leisure and hospitality sectors. Shindler’s practice focuses on drafting and negotiating contracts, ranging from high-value and sophisticated technology agreements to consumer-friendly website terms and conditions and advising on legal issues on all aspects of commerce and technology. Prior to joining Locke Lord, Shindler was a trainee, associate, partner and head of technology at SJ Berwin, where he worked for more than 25 years. Following its combination in 2014, he was a partner with King & Wood Mallesons until January 2017 and most recently a consultant to KWM Europe LLP.
Richard Hakes	Reed Smith	Allen & overy	Finance	Reed Smith has welcomed the return of Richard Hakes as a partner in London. He trained and qualified as an associate at Reed Smith in 2007 before moving to Allen & Overy, where he has specialised in ship and aircraft finance for the last seven years. Hakes will spearhead the firm’s aviation finance practice in London. He also has extensive experience in a wide range of structured and large-scale asset finance transactions, including in export credit agency related matters, commercial debt finance, Islamic finance, tax leasing, operating leasing, asset and portfolio disposals and acquisitions, joint ventures, securitisations, capital markets products and restructurings. He advises a significant cross-section of clients, including banks, funds, arrangers, export credit agencies, ship owners, charterers, lessors, airlines and manufacturers.
Jonathan Landau	DAC Beachcroft	RadcliffesLeBrasseur	Dispute Resolution	DAC Beachcroft has announced the appointment of healthcare regulatory specialist Jonathan Landau as a partner in its London office. Landau joins the firm from RadcliffesLeBrasseur, where he was a partner specialising in regulation, dispute resolution and crisis management. Working on high-profile cases, he advises health and social care providers in connection with CQC enforcement, safeguarding investigations, inquests and health and safety investigations and prosecutions. Having initially qualified as a barrister, Landau also retains his rights of audience and regularly conducts advocacy at inquests on behalf of clients.
David Berman	Latham & Watkins	Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan	Finance	Latham & Watkins has announced that David Berman will join the London office as a partner in the financial institutions group. His practice focuses on representing financial institutions on a range of domestic and cross-border regulatory, compliance and governance-related matters. He advises both buy-side and sell-side clients on a variety of complex and high-profile advisory, remedial and transactional matters. His recent work includes advising extensively on the senior managers & certification regime, assisting with regulatory reform projects such as MAR, undertaking independent investigations and overseeing complex remediation and redress exercises. He frequently counsels boards and executives on ’high-stakes’ issues of strategic significance. Berman will join Latham & Watkins from the London office of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan. Earlier in his career, he was a managing director at an international investment bank where he held senior legal, compliance and regulatory roles; and subsequently a partner at Macfarlanes LLP. He was called to the Bar in 1997, before being admitted as a Solicitor of England & Wales in 2000.
Geoff O'Dea	Baker McKenzie	Freshfields	Finance	Baker McKenzie has expanded its London banking and technology practices with the appointment of three new partners: finance partner Geoff O’Dea from Freshfields; finance senior associate Matthew Smith from Travers Smith; and technology of-counsel Sue McLean from Morrison & Foerster. All three join the firm in September 2017. O’Dea has almost 20 years of financing experience and specialises in restructuring and insolvency and acquisition finance. He regularly advises sponsors, special situation funds, creditors and debtors, and insolvency practitioners. He is an expert and published author on Schemes of Arrangement. Smith specialises in acquisition and leveraged finance, corporate lending, debt restructurings and general financing matters across a range of sectors. McLean, who will be joining the information technology & communications practice advises on a wide range of commercial and technology matters, including outsourcing, complex technology infrastructure and digital transformation projects, and has particular experience advising on FinTech. Their appointments follow a number of recent hires including David Duncan and Melanie Howard who joined as M&A partners from Allen & Overy and Clifford Chance respectively; and Alex Lewis who joined the private equity practice from Ropes & Gray as a partner.
Matthew Smith	Baker McKenzie	Travers Smith	Finance
Sue McLean	Baker McKenzie	Morrison & Foerster	Technology
Alexandrine Armstrong-Cerfontaine	Goodwin	King & Wood Mallesons	Finance	Goodwin has announced the appointment of Alexandrine Armstrong-Cerfontaine as partner in its London office. Armstrong-Cerfontaine focuses on fund formation and transactions, advising private equity sponsors on their investments and corporate finance, drawing on her experience on business management, corporate finance, restructuring, compensation, retirement plans and advising financial sponsors and management in setting-up complex compensation schemes as part of leverage buyout transactions. She also has general experience in syndicated financings (including leveraged financing and restructurings) and a particular experience in fund financings. Prior to joining the partnership, Armstrong-Cerfontaine served as a consultant in Goodwin’s London office. Previously, she was managing partner of King & Wood Mallesons’ Luxembourg office, and practised at Allen & Overy. Fluent in French and English, Armstrong-Cerfontaine is a member of the Law Society (England & Wales) and Luxembourg and Paris Bars.
Dhana Sabanathan	Winckworth Sherwood	McDermott Will & Emery	Private Client	Winckworth Sherwood has expanded its private business & wealth offering with the appointment of Dhana Sabanathan. She has significant experience in the private client and wealth management sector, working with high-net-worth / ultra-high-net-worth individuals, family offices, entrepreneurs, corporates and owner-managed businesses. Sabanathan, who joins from McDermott Will & Emery where she was a partner, advises UK and non-UK clients on international tax and estate planning. She also brings significant experience in cross-border estate planning issues and advising financial institutions on international trust matters.
John Bosworth	Maples Teesdale	Ashfords	Planning	John Bosworth brings a wealth of experience as a planning lawyer and as a partner, having previously been at Ashurst and more recently at Ashfords where he has been head of planning for a number of years.
Martin Smith	Maples Teesdale	Hewittsons	Commercial Property	Martin Smith will be joining the firm from Hewitsons and specialises in strategic land projects, property joint ventures, and development.
John Dean	McCarthy Denning	Seddons	Real Estate	John Dean has over 20 years’ experience and specialises in property investment, funding and development, as well as owner occupier matters. In addition to his broad experience advising on general commercial real estate work, he has particular expertise working with clients in the healthcare, office, charity, hotel and leisure, retail, and education sectors. Dean also works with private individuals in respect of residential property and leasehold reform.
John Vercoe	McCarthy Denning	Baker McKenzie	Corporate and Commercial	John Vercoe is a corporate and commercial lawyer in international oil and gas. He has worked in the sector across Europe, Asia and Africa, holding both in-house and private practice positions, including at Baker McKenzie, Fasken Martineau and British Gas, where he was head of legal. Vercoe advises international oil companies and contractors on their day-to-day business with governments and regulatory agencies, including negotiations, service agreements and production sharing agreements.
Jonathan Baird	Hogan Lovells	Freshfields	Corporate	Hogan Lovells has made an addition to its investment funds practice with the appointment of partner Jonathan Baird in London. Baird is a dual qualified UK and US corporate and securities lawyer who has been a partner with Freshfields in London for over ten years. He specialises in investment fund and asset management work across all asset classes. His practice includes capital raisings by public and private investment entities, especially listed investment companies, real estate issuers and special purpose acquisition companies, as well as M&A and corporate governance advice.
Mark Carroll	Simmons & Simmons	Clifford Chance	Corporate	Simmons & Simmons has expanded its corporate and commercial group with the addition of M&A lawyer Mark Carroll, who joins the firm’s London office as a partner. Carroll joins from Clifford Chance, where he was previously a partner for almost 20 years. Specialising in M&A transactional and corporate advisory work, Carroll’s work includes high end M&A, joint ventures, strategic investments, some capital markets work and private equity work. As well as advising on traditional M&A work for investment managers, he has advised on sales of LLP interests, including several LLP interest portfolio sales.
Wang Rongkang	King & Wood Mallesons	Departent of Foreign Affairs	Corporate	Appointed as the firm’s EUME managing partner, based in London. Rongkang is currently a partner in investment and mergers and acquisitions and is a member of the firm’s international management committee and China management committee. He is also chair of the KWM Shenzhen office and had been acting as the managing partner of South China offices. Before joining the firm Rongkang worked as a deputy director at the European and American Division, Department of Foreign Affairs
Jonathan Hulley	Capsticks	Clarke Willmott	Real Estate	Capsticks has announced that Jonathan Hulley has joined its housing team as an equity partner from 31 July 2017. He headed the housing and leasehold management department at Clarke Willmott and co-led the social housing sector with colleague Chimi Shakohoxha, who joined Capsticks in May 2017 (reported in LegalMoves V13.9, 15 May 2017). Hulley has worked in the housing management sector for over 15 years and brings a wealth of expertise and practical experience to housing management clients.
Victoria Kennedy	DAC Beachcroft	BLM	Claims Solutions	Victoria Kennedy specialises in defending complex, high value employer’s and public liability claims, acting for both insurers and large corporate clients, particularly in the retail, leisure and hospitality sectors. She also has considerable experience of advising on health and safety issues, including regulatory investigations, inquests and prosecutions brought by the Health and Safety Executive and local authorities, following very serious or fatal accidents in the workplace.
Keith Woodhouse	Fieldfisher	Hogan Lovells	Corporate	Keith Woodhouse has a wealth of experience advising private equity houses and investors on investments, M&A, disposals and restructurings, both domestically and internationally and has a broad sector experience.
Robert Wieder	Faegre Baker Daniels	Bryan Cave	Corporate	Robert Wieder has joined Faegre Baker Daniels in London as a partner in the firm’s corporate practice, where he will advise on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate matters throughout Europe, the Middle East and beyond. He has experience in the natural resources, mining, oil and gas, finance, health care, retail, defence, food and beverage, tech, and communications industries. He has advised on the sale and purchase of companies and joint ventures in many of these sectors, as well as mining assets. Wieder has served on the board of directors for businesses such as European American Investment Bank AG, Integrated Nursing Homes Ltd, Guest Krieger Ltd and Marchpole Holdings plc. He is a member of the International Bar Association as well as professional organisations related to corporate finance, business and arbitration. Prior to joining Faegre Baker Daniels, Wieder practised as a partner with Bryan Cave and Field Fisher Waterhouse (now known as Fieldfisher).
Amy Pope	Schillings	US Deputy Homeland Security Advisor to President Obama	International crisis and Problem Solving Practice	Amy Pope was previously US Deputy Homeland Security Advisor to President Obama. She will assist clients in evaluating their reputation and privacy risks, and will support clients with North American interest and assets.
Jeremy Eakin	Schillings	UBS AG	Family	Jeremy Eakin was formerly a managing director and a founding member of UBS AG’s global family office team. He advises clients on mitigating risk, reputation and privacy matters, as well as crisis management.
John Chase	Schillings	GardaWorld	Risk, Crime, Cyber	John Chase began his career in intelligence before leading the crisis response divisions at Kroll, Aegis Group plc and latterly, GardaWorld. He has experience of advising prominent individuals, governments and multinational organisations on how to respond to kidnap for ransom, extortion and cyber threats.
Stuart Cairns	Bird & Bird	Pinsent Masons	Procurement	Stuart has advised clients throughout the UK and Ireland, including in the private sector, as well as central, local and regional Government bodies, public and privately owned utilities, universities and health trusts. He advises on the processes by which major works, services and supplies contracts are awarded in accordance with UK/European public and utilities procurement law, including liaising with stakeholders, designing procurement processes and drafting procurement documentation. He runs high value and high profile procurement litigation matters on the claimant and defendant sides.
Atiyah Malik	Hodge Jones & Allen	Osborn Abas Hunt	Regulatory and Criminal	Atiyah was previously a partner and senior member of Berrymans Lace Mawer’s safety, health & environment department. Her specialist areas are health and safety, environmental, regulatory defence and compliance work.
Lisa Judd	Hodge Jones & Allen	Fisher Meredith	Employment	Lisa joins from Fisher Meredith where she was head of employment and acted for both employers and employees across a full range of contentious and non-contentious matters. Having started her legal career in the employment team at Bates & Partners (now BTMK Solicitors LLP), Judd has also worked at Bowling & Co., where she was an assistant solicitor and head of employment, and Thackray Williams LLP. She is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association.
Mark Rajbenbach	Taylor Wessing	Paul Hastings	Corporate Real Estate	Mark has experience in advising UK and international clients on a range of commercial real estate and corporate real estate transactions, including in the hotels sector. He advises on tax-based transactions and structuring cross-border transactions, joint ventures, investment sales and purchases, including structured transactions of corporate holding vehicles, hotel leases and management agreements in Europe and world-wide.
Louise Skinner	Morgan Lewis	Allen & Overy	Employment	Louise Skinner advises on unfair and constructive dismissal, whistleblowing, discrimination, and contractual disputes. She also advises on the employment aspects of cross-border regulatory investigations and regulatory personnel issues, including disciplinary proceedings, issues of privilege, and employee compensation matters such as the withholding and forfeiture of bonus payments and deferred compensation. She also advises on equality and diversity matters, pay equity, parental rights, quotas, and positive action in recruitment and promotion. Her sector experience includes the financial services and life sciences sectors.
Dominic Whelan	Goodman Derrick	Brecher	Real estate & Construction	Dominic Whelan specialises in advising developers, investors and asset managers in the UK property market.
Tom Pemberton	Goodman Derrick	Beale & Company	Real estate & Construction	Tom Pemberton brings expertise in drafting and negotiating development agreements, construction contracts, professional appointments and related agreements, building on his experience over many years of advising on high profile construction and infrastructure projects, and his knowledge of the domestic and international real estate and infrastructure sectors.
Tim Crockford	Clyde & Co	Gowling WLG	Disputes	Tim worked on a wide range of contractual and tortious disputes, many of which have an international element. He has particular experience acting for clients in the accounting, financial and professional services sectors including for the ’Big Four’. In addition to UK High Court litigation, Tim Crockford regularly assists and advises clients in relation to regulatory investigations, including by the SFO, FRC and Pensions Regulator. He has experience in all forms of dispute resolution including international arbitration disputes in the LCIA and ICC, as well as mediations. He also has experience working on US and Nordic cases where there are English legal issues.
Dylan Potter	Vedder Price	Allen & Overy	Transportation Finance	Dylan Potter advises on a broad range of financing, leasing, capital markets and fund products involving commercial and corporate aviation, shipping, satellites, utilities and industrial equipment. He represents lenders, export credit agencies, operating lessors, lessees and equity investors in these sectors.
Ashley Winton	McDermott Will & Emery	Paul Hastings	Cybersecurity & Data Protection	Ashley Winton is a specialist in data protection and privacy, information governance and cybersecurity compliance. He has particularly in-depth knowledge of cyber breach response, cyber security in the context of payment systems, the lawful interception of data, and the conflict of laws in relation to corporate and government investigations and international litigation. He frequently represents major corporations, trade associations, charities and government entities on a range of data privacy issues and he has significant experience in advising on the impact of privacy and cyber security law on cloud services, telecommunications and international data transfers. Ashley Winton has extensive experience in advising banks and financial institutions, FinTech companies, technology providers and the online behavioural advertising industry in Europe. Formerly a computer designer, he is a fellow of the Ponemon Institute, and current chairman of the UK Data Protection Forum.
Chris Richardson	Pinsent Masons	EY	Forensic Accounting Services	Chris Richardson has over 20 years’ experience in professional accounting amassed across multiple jurisdictions including Canada, USA and the UK. He has extensive expertise in the energy and TMT sectors.
Anthony Newton	Pinsent Masons	Hogan Lovells	Real estate	Anthony Newton worked for ten years in the London real estate group at Hogan Lovells, working on investment, development and occupational matters. More recently he has focused on the growing alternative assets sector, in particular in the private rented sector and student accommodation sector where he has experience in investment purchases and development fundings.
Alejandro Garcia	Clyde & Co	Winston & Strawn	Arbitration	Alejandro Garcia is an arbitration specialist with over a decade of experience across major arbitral seats in Latin America, Europe and Asia. His practice focuses on both investment treaty arbitration and international commercial litigation, primarily in Europe and Latin America. One of his particular specialisms is advising on treaty disputes in the renewable energy sector within the EU. He also sits as a World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) panellist.
Donna Goldsworthy	Pitmans Law	Irwin Mitchell	Commercial Litigation	Donna Goldsworthy specialises in business advisory and risk matters.
Deborah Ruff	Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman	Norton Rose Fulbright	Arbitration & Litigation	Deborah Ruff has extensive experience of advising on high-value and complex international arbitration, particularly in the energy, infrastructure and construction, telecoms, financial and corporate sectors. She handles arbitration cases under various institutional rules, and on an ad hoc basis. She appears before the London Court of International Arbitration, the International Chambers of Commerce, the American Arbitration Association, and the United National Commission of International Trade Law tribunals and she advises clients on arbitrations under the Swiss, Stockholm and Dubai International Arbitration Centre rules. She also handles various commercial litigation matters under English law, and the laws of other countries. Her practice focuses largely on multi-jurisdictional energy disputes, including disputes over the granting of exploration permit, production sharing agreements, other oil and gas joint venture agreements, the construction and performance of refineries, power plants, and offshore rigs, oil trading, oil and gas transport and coal fired and nuclear power plants. She has also dealt with disputes over long term energy pricing and other contract re-negotiations, both between private entities and between states and investors.
Philip Crump	DLA Piper	Gibson Dunn & Crutcher	Leveraged Finance	Philip Crump’s practice covers traditional sponsor and lender side leveraged finance as well as special situations and private deals for alternative credit providers.
Douglas Murning	DLA Piper	Kirkland & Ellis	Leveraged Finance	Douglas Murning who will initially split his time between London and Hong Kong. He joins from Kirkland & Ellis’ Hong Kong office where he focused on leveraged finance and other finance transactions, special situations and alternative credit provider financing, and the restructuring of complex debt arrangements. He advises borrowers and capital providers at all levels of the capital structure.
Tom Burdass	Hill Dickinson	Campbell Johnston Clark	Shipping Litigation	Appointed legal director Tom Burdass to its shipping practice in London. Burdass joins from Campbell Johnston Clark where he worked for more than six years acting for clients in dry shipping litigation matters with a focus on P&I and FD&D disputes. He has also acted in a variety of wet shipping matters. He advises on all aspects of dispute arising from charterparties, bills of lading, pool agreements, MOAs and other commercial shipping contracts. He has advised on towage, general average, salvage and marine insurance matters.
Nadeem Khan	DWFM Beckman	Gateley PLC	Property	Nadeem Khan is a specialist property lawyer who advises on investment acquisitions, development work, property finance planning, environment, joint ventures, and landlord and tenant matters. He acts for seller and buyers of commercial freehold and leasehold property in the leisure, hotels, hospitality, office and industrial sectors.
Marcus Thompson	Kirkland & Ellis	Ropes & Gray	Global investigation and enforcement	Marcus Thompson advises clients on anti-money laundering, anti-corruption, sanctions and related business-crime matters. He has conducted investigations and compliance reviews across Europe and has helped companies in a variety of sectors with the design and implementation of compliance programs. He also advises individuals involved in investigations conducted by enforcement and regulatory bodies in the UK such as the Financial Conduct Authority, Serious Fraud Office, Financial Reporting Council, Crown Prosecution Service and HM Revenue & Customs. Thompson started his career as a barrister, defending and prosecuting cases in the criminal courts, before joining the Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) as a senior legal adviser. He also spent several years as general counsel for Walkers, the offshore law firm.
Leith Moghli	Reed Smith	Kirkland & Ellis	Private Equity & Investment	Leith Moghli advises global and European fund sponsors and financial institutions on the formation of their investment vehicles across a broad range of strategies and asset classes, with a particular emphasis on private equity, venture infrastructure, natural resources, energy, secondary and debt funds. He also counsels fund managers on carried interest, co-investment and other incentive arrangements, including leveraged co-investments and separate account arrangements. Leith Moghli has considerable experience advising on a broad range of complex international private equity transactions, including cornerstone fund investments, joint ventures, secondary portfolio acquisitions, synthetic secondaries, first time funds, fund and management company spin outs and restructurings, and other general corporate matters. He qualified as a solicitor with PwCLegal.
Susannah Wakefield	Shoosmiths	Taylor Wessing	Insurance	Having qualified at Cameron McKenna in 1997, Susannah Wakefield moved to LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae in London and spent seven years in their New York office handling complex high value (re)insurance litigation and arbitration. She was admitted to the New York State Bar in 2003 and remains dual-qualified. Susannah Wakefield then spent three years (2007-2010) in Bermuda as counsel at local firm, ASW, specialising in insurance and commercial disputes, where she was admitted as a barrister and attorney before returning to London to accept a partnership with Taylor Wessing in 2010.
Juilan Stanier & Gareth Jones	Pinsent Masons	Berwin Leighton Paisner	Equity Captial Markets	The two lawyers specialise in advising investment banks and corporate brokers and other intermediaries active in the London markets and internationally. They also advise clients on their corporate finance and public and private mergers and acquisition requirements.
John Dawson	Vinson & Elkins	Clifford Chance	Acquistion & Leveraged Finance	John Dawson has a wide array of experience in syndicated, club and unitranche public and private acquisition and other event driven financings, funds financings, real estate financings and restructurings in the UK, European and international markets. He started as a trainee and associate at Clifford Chance in London before being promoted to partner at the firm in 2010.
Huw Morris	Lee & Thompson	Reed Smith	Advertsing	Huw Morris has extensive experience advising on a range of advertising matters including copy clearance, regulatory investigations, intellectual property, digital, media buying and planning, talent and content acquisitions, and sponsorship. He has also worked in the legal team at the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising.
Sharon Lamb	McDermott Will & Emery	Capsticks	Health	Sharon Lamb joins the health practice group and has extensive experience in leading large and complex healthcare projects and contractual arrangements, including procurement, competition clearance, trust mergers, accountable care systems, and integrated and shared working arrangements.
Adrian Barlow	Irwin Mitchell	Pinsent Masons	Real Estate	Adrain Barlow joins as Head of Real Estate and specialises in advising both public and private sector organisations in project strategy and the implementation of real estate portfolio and business change management.
Sarah Cardew	Irwin Mitchell	Teacher Stern LLP	Corporate tax	Sarah Cardew previously worked at Penningtons Manches and Berwin Leighton Paisner. She specialises in corporate tax, with particular emphasis on M&A, property tax, employment tax and VAT - she is a member of the Law Society’s VAT and duties sub-committee which comments on draft VAT legislation to HMRC.
Jeremy Raj	Irwin Mitchell	Wedlake Bell	Residential Property	Jeremy Raj joins as head of residential property in London. Jeremy Raj was previously at Wedlake Bell where he was head of the residential team from 2006 to 2013, was an elected board member and one of four practice group leaders with responsibility for the private client, immigration, family and residential property teams. He advises on all aspects of residential property with a particular emphasis on residential investment, development and funding, landlord and tenant work, as well as portfolio acquisitions, disposal and management issues. He has strong experience with overseas investors and in high end London residential property.
Richard Geraghty	Irwin Mitchell	Slater & Gordon	Personal Injury	Richard Geraghty joins from Slater and Gordon UK where he was a principal lawyer (LLP member) in the personal injury department specialising in high value and complex serious injury and fatal accident claims. He was the lead client partner for personal injury work for the Police Federation who refer several PI and clinical negligence cases every year and he had a lead role in setting up the firm’s client funding arrangements.
Monica Gogna	Dechert	Ropes & Gray	Financial Services	Monica Gogna focuses on advising financial institutions in the asset management sector. She has extensive cross-border regulatory experience, most recently having worked with the Investment Association to advise on cross-jurisdictional matters regarding the application of MiFID II research rules.
Anand Damodaran	Kirkland & Ellis	Ropes & Gray	Finance	In addition to fund formation, Anand Damodaran also advises clients on the establishment of carried interest and co-investment schemes, secondaries and strategic fund sponsor transactions.
Clive Hopewell & Adam Carling	Bird & Bird	Charles Russell Speechlys	Equity Captial Markets	Both lawyers have extensive natural resources sector experience. Clive Hopewell has strong contacts in the Middle East, having been based in Bahrain for five years. Adam Carling has extensive experience of public takeovers, and has significant experience in Africa.
George Burn	Berwin Leighton Paisner	Vinson & Elkins	Arbitration	George Burn represents companies, individuals and States from across the globe in international arbitrations conducted in various arbitration hubs. He has considerable experience of disputes in oil and gas, mining and infrastructure fields, as well as real estate development, shareholder disputes, finance, sports, insurance and pharmaceuticals. He specialises in international investment arbitration.
Richard Chalk	Berwin Leighton Paisner	Freshfields	Disputes	Richard Chalk has led complex disputes and arbitrations, has joined BLP’s commercial dispute resolution group team. He will have a dual focus on clients in London and Asia, and has many existing relationships in the region from his eight year stint as head of Freshfields’ Asia disputes practice in Hong Kong.
Toni Vitale	Winckworth Sherwood	Addleshaw Goddard	Technology	Toni Vitale has considerable in-house experience; he has held several positions as a senior legal adviser, general counsel, head of legal and company secretary in a variety of businesses including Virgin Media, IBM, YouView TV and BGL Group. He has extensive experience of advising clients on a variety of privacy and cyber issues.
Jon Baldwin	Winckworth Sherwood	Trowers & Hamlins	Procurement	Jon Baldwin specialises in procurement, state aid and public and administrative law for a range of clients across the public sector, the regulated private sector and businesses working with those sectors. Jon Baldwin began his career at Winckworth Sherwood, where he trained and qualified into the commercial and corporate team. He returns from Trowers & Hamlins, where he worked in the public sector commercial team.