| Name | Firm to | Firm from | Practice | Notes | Date |
| Alejandro Garcia | Clyde & Co | Winston & Strawn | Global Arbitration | Alejandro's 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. | Saturday, 30 September 2017 |
| Anthony Newton | Pinsent Masons | Hogan Lovells | Real Estate | More recently Anthony 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 | Saturday, 30 September 2017 |
| Chris Richardson | Pinsent Masons | EY | Forensic Accounting | Chris 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. | Saturday, 30 September 2017 |
| Ashley Winton | McDermott Will & Emery | Paul Hastings | Technology and Cyber Law | 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. Winton has extensive experience in advising banks and financial institutions, FinTech companies, technology providers and the online behavioural advertising industry in Europe. | Saturday, 30 September 2017 |
| Marise Gellert | Keoghs | Plexus Law | Commercial Litigation | Marise Gellert has worked within the insurance industry since qualifying as a solicitor in 1990 and specialises in the recovery and defence of property damage claims in addition to advising on policy coverage issues. She has a particular expertise in the construction and electrical industries. | Saturday, 30 September 2017 |
| 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. | Saturday, 30 September 2017 |
| Tim Crockford | Clyde & Co | Gowling WLG | Dispute Resolution | At Gowling WLG, 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, 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. | Saturday, 30 September 2017 |
| Dominic Whelan | Goodman Derrick | Brecher | Real Estate | Dominic specialises in advising developers, investors and asset managers in the UK property market. | Saturday, 30 September 2017 |
| Tom Pemberton | Goodman Derrick | Beale & Company | Construction | Tom 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. | Saturday, 30 September 2017 |
| Louise Skinner | Morgan Lewis | Allen & Overy | Employment | Louise 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. | Saturday, 30 September 2017 |
| Mark Rajbenbach | Taylor Wessing | Paul Hastings | Real Estate | Mark Railenbach 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. | Saturday, 30 September 2017 |
| Sarah Barker | Lee & Thompson | Montgomery Barker | Arts & Fashion | Sarah Barker is set to join the firm 1st November 2017. She will become head of the firm’s arts and fashion groups. After working at Herbert Smith as a corporate lawyer she studied at the Sotherby’s Institute of Art, and founded Montgomery Barker. She acts for artists, collectors and retail entrepreneurs, SMEs and PLCs, including art dealerships, auction houses, fashion and beauty businesses, technology companies, advertisers and events businesses. | Sunday, 15 October 2017 |
| Amy Comer | Crowell & Moring | Morgan Lewis | Corporate | Amy Comer has nearly 20 years’ experience handling international corporate, commercial, and technology transactions, with a primary focus in emerging markets. She will advise clients on cross-border and US domestic investment and financial matters, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic partnerships, restructurings, corporate and project finance transactions, and general corporate and commercial matters | Sunday, 15 October 2017 |
| James Watson | Kirkland & Ellis | Stephenson Harwood | Restructuring | James Watson focuses his practice on financial restructurings and formal insolvency mandates for a wide range of stakeholders including individual lenders, steering committees, sponsors, borrowers and insolvency officeholders. | Sunday, 15 October 2017 |
| Tim Sewart | Memery Crystal | DAC Beachcroft | Commercial, Media and Technology | Tim Sewart advises on innovative technology and high value transactions in the sector. In 2013 he co-founded Cerno Professional Services, a company offering legal analysis and technical guidance on reducing software licensing costs. | Sunday, 15 October 2017 |
| Robin Fry | Memery Crystal | DAC Beachcroft | Intellectual Property | Robin Fry has spent much of his career advising on copyright issues, his current focus in on software licensing, often dealing with the global software vendors in license reviews. He is a director of Cerno Professional Services. | Sunday, 15 October 2017 |
| Paul Voller | Washbrough Vizards | Bircham Dyson Bell | Charities | Paul Voller has extensive experience of advising a wide range of charity and other not for profit clients, particularly in relation to corporate and commercial issues. Many of his clients work in the fields of health and education, and he has acted for the largest charitable hospital group in the UK. Voller will be based in VWV’s London office. | Sunday, 15 October 2017 |
| Sophie St John | RSM Legal | Barclays Wealth and Investment Management | Private Client | Sophie who has been a private client solicitor of 20 years, joins RSM Legal LLP from Barclays Wealth and Investment Management where she was lead counsel specialising in trust work. Prior to that she worked in the private client divisions of Speechly Bircham, Allen & Overy and Bircham Dyson Bell. | Sunday, 15 October 2017 |
| Rubin Weston | Stephenson Harwood | Baker Botts | Finance | Rubin Weston has more than 20 years’ experience advising lenders and sponsors on major financings in developing markets. He has particular expertise in the oil and gas, LNG, mining and metals, power and infrastructure sectors, and in emerging markets such as Russia and other Eastern European countries. | Sunday, 15 October 2017 |
| Sloan Kelly | Faegre Baker Daniels | Dorsey & Whitney | Real Estate | Sloan Kelly Kelly focuses his practice on real estate investment acquisitions, disposals, development and commercial real estate finance, advising on transactions from single asset to portfolios. His clients range from institutions and funds to corporate and private clients both on and offshore. | Sunday, 15 October 2017 |
| Christopher Field | Dechert | Kirkland & Ellis | Corporate | Christpher Field's Field’s practice focuses on private equity and M&A transactions | Sunday, 15 October 2017 |
| Jane Scobie | Dechert | Kirkland & Ellis | Tax | Jane Scobie’s practice focuses on tax aspects of commercial transactions, including private equity and M&A. | Sunday, 15 October 2017 |
| Tracy Evlogidis | Withers | Morgan Lewis | Immigration | Tracy Evlogidis has practised in the immigration law field for more than 18 years. Her practice includes advising both institutions and individuals on UK immigration applications and issues, and she frequently works with corporate clients to help them develop immigration policies and practices. Evlogidis is a member of the Home Office Business and Operational Forum, which works with the governments on legal and policy changes in immigration. | Sunday, 15 October 2017 |
| Darran Smith | Glovers | Fladgate | Commercial property | Darran Smith has a wide ranging property practice and acts for banks, developers, and entrepreneurs. For landlords he specialises in putting in place new lettings. He deals with the ongoing management of shopping centres and commercial parades and he also acts for new occupiers of offices and retail and leisure properties | Sunday, 15 October 2017 |
| Flora Grossman & Farhana Shahzady | Blake Morgan | Bindmans | Family | Flora Grossman is a divorce and matrimonial finance specialist and qualified mediator. She has been a Resolution accredited specialist in high net worth financial matters for more than 13 years, and has extensive experience advising on financial matters including cohabitation disputes, maintenance disputes and proceedings under Sch.1 Children Act. She also advises on complex trust and company matters for high net worth clients. She is a member of the Law Society’s children panel. Farhana Shahzady specialises in contested financial disputes at court and deals with a range of court applications in relation to matrimonial finance, including freezing injunctions, setting aside and variation applications together with maintenance pending suit and applications for legal costs funding. She also has experience in children dispute and has been a Resolution accredited specialist for over eight years and is a member of the Law Society’s children panel. She is a recognised Resolution collaborative lawyer. | Sunday, 15 October 2017 |
| Matthew Wescott | Carter Ruck | DAC Beachcroft | Dispute Resolution | Matthew Wescott is an experienced dispute resolution lawyer with expertise across the whole spectrum of international commercial disputes, including banking, insurance, commodities, construction, professional negligence and international arbitration. He has particular experience in the Latin American market and speaks fluent Spanish and Portuguese. He joined the firm August 2017. | Sunday, 15 October 2017 |
| Jaspal Sekhon | Hill Dickinson | Charles Russell Speechlys | Corporate | Jaspal has a wide ranging practice which encompasses corporate finance, transactional and advisory work. He has extensive experience in capital markets work; in particular AIM and main market listings, Takeover Code transactions, secondary fundraisings as well as governance and compliance issues. In addition, he has experience of advising on private M&A transactions, joint ventures, corporate reorganisations and equity fundraisings and investments. His sector experience includes real estate, technology, natural resources and financial services. | Sunday, 15 October 2017 |
| Tim Hewens | Osborne Clarke | Squire Patton Boggs | Private Equity | Tim was formerly a partner and UK head of private equity at Squire Patton Boggs. | Sunday, 15 October 2017 |
| Andrew Carpenter | DWF | Addleshaw Goddard | Corporate | Andrew Carpenter’s practice focuses on high-profile domestic and international M&A transactions, acting primarily for private equity investors in the mid-market. He has diverse sector experience across manufacturing, healthcare, transport and infrastructure and, in particular, financial services. | Sunday, 15 October 2017 |
| Mel Sims | DWF | DLA Piper | Corporate | Mel Sims has considerable experience in joint venture enterprises and in acting for major corporates on cross-border and multi-jurisdictional M&A deals. He will take a lead role in developing DWF’s corporate insurance sector profile. | Sunday, 15 October 2017 |
| Megan Paul | Charles Russell Speechlys | Mayer Brown LLP | Commercial & TMT | Megan Paul was previously at Mayer Brown International LLP where she spent ten years, with secondments to Nomura International plc, Unilever plc and Airbus S.A.S. as well as an international secondment to Mayer Brown’s head office in Chicago working for the firm’s US client base. | Sunday, 15 October 2017 |
| Liz Pierson | Squire Patton Boggs | Clifford Chance | Tax strategy and benefits | Liz Pierson advises on all aspects of executive remuneration, share schemes and incentive issues for public and private companies in the UK and internationally. Her main focus is advising on the implementation and operation of global share plans. She advises on corporate governance matters relating to remuneration and incentives, the use of employee benefit trusts, the impact of corporate transactions, on share plans, and remuneration issues for financial institutions. She also advises on incentives for private equity portfolio companies, including acquisitions and disposals, incentives for management and the unwinding of EBTs. | Sunday, 15 October 2017 |
| Teena Dhanota-Jones | Hodge Jones & Allen | Curzon Green | Family | Teena Dhanota-Jones advises on divorce and the financial settlements arising from a relationship breakdown. She advises on jurisdictional matters in financial and children matters, and leave to remove children from England and Wales. She also advises on relationship breakdown and on pre and post nuptial agreements. | Sunday, 15 October 2017 |
| James Crighton | Ashfords | Rollingsons Solicitors | Commercial Litigation | James Crighton specialises in high-value complex work, including FAC regulatory work, but also advises in general commercial matters including contractual claims, debt recovery, company and partnership disputes, civil fraud, intellectual property, insolvency and asset recovery. | Sunday, 15 October 2017 |
| Peter Lewis | CMS | White & Case | Corporate Private Equity | Peter Lewis is a private equity specialist with more than 10 years’ experience advising mid-market financial sponsors, portfolio companies and management teams. He advises on all forms of leveraged buyout, equity investment and structuring, consortia arrangements, reorganisations, refinancings, bolt-on acquisitions, management incentive schemes and related portfolio company matters. | Sunday, 15 October 2017 |
| Matthew Olorenshaw | DAC Beachcroft | DWF | Insurance | Matthew advises major insurers on defending complex claims against construction professionals particularly architects, engineers, design and build contractors and specialist building consultants. He has also acted directly for developers, contractors and subcontractors involved in complicated, high-value construction-related disputes both in the UK and abroad. Recent work has included advising insurers on a dispute arising from construction defects at a major UK hospital, and losses arising from a power failure at a large UK data centre. | Tuesday, 31 October 2017 |
| Narrinder Taggar | Shaespeare Martineau | Blake Morgan | Insurance litigation | Narrinder will be using her wide-ranging experience to help existing clients, both large corporates and insurers, to reduce risk and resolve disputes. In the course of her career to date, Narrinder has accumulated a wealth of knowledge in a broad range of areas, including stress and harassment claims against employers, RTAs and disease work, as well as possessing extensive expertise in holistic insurnace solutions for businesses. | Tuesday, 31 October 2017 |
| Philip Newhouse | Michaelmores | McGuireWoods | Corporate | Philip focuses on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and reorganisations. His experience includes cross-border and domestic corporate work for a wide range of international clients. He has advised on a variety of investment funds involving private equity, private equity real estate and hedge and other investment funds in the UK, Central and Eastern Europe and the Middle East. | Tuesday, 31 October 2017 |
| Douglas Hawthorn | Michaelmores | Travers Smith | Restructuring & Insolvency | Douglas Hawthorn specialises in advising on debt restructuring, turnaround and insolvency situations, acting for private equity sponsors, financial institutions, investors, companies, directors, turnaround professionals and insolvency practitioners. He has a particular interest in cross-border issues. | Tuesday, 31 October 2017 |
| Paul Gardner | Wiggin | Osborne Clarke | Computer Games | Paul Gardner specialises in commercial transactions relating to the production, financing and exploitation of interactive entertainment products and services. He also advises on the various regulatory issues that this involves, including laws and regulations relating to age ratings, virtual currencies, broadcasting and telecoms, collecting societies, data privacy, e-commerce and betting and gaming. Paul Gardner works with companies of all sizes, from start-ups to multi-nationals and with games for all platforms, from mobile to Massively Multiplayer Online Gaming (MMOGs). He is a member of the Video Game Bar Association. | Tuesday, 31 October 2017 |
| Jonathan Cohen | Howard Kennedy | Eversheds Sutherland | Renewable Energy | Jonathan Cohen has extensive experience in the renewables and energy sectors and has worked in the UK and internationally and across all clean technologies, including offshore and onshore wind, solar PV, CHP, district heating, geothermal and energy storage. He also advises on traditional energy generation projects. His clients include utility companies, large industrial Energy consumers, property developers, lenders and sponsors. | Tuesday, 31 October 2017 |
| Rob Horne | Osborne Clarke | Simmons & Simmons | Construction Disputes | Rob Horne joins the firm’s construction disputes team on the 1 November 2017. With more than 20 years of experience he advises on construction, engineering and infrastructure projects particularly those arising in the transport infrastructure sector. He provides clients with focused strategic advice from a technical construction perspective on dispute avoidance and dispute management in relation to large and complex infrastructure projects in the UK and internationally. He also sits as an adjudicator. | Tuesday, 31 October 2017 |
| Max Millington | Osborne Clarke | Freshfields | Banking & Finance | Max has expertise in advising financial institutions, sponsors and borrowers across the credit spectrum in relation to leveraged financings. He is a specialist in debt funds, regularly acts in the distressed opportunities market and has authored articles on debt-funded public acquisitions. | Tuesday, 31 October 2017 |
| Alex McIntosh | Thomas Cooper | Clyde & Co | Shipping | Alex McIntosh has a wide shipping experience with a particular focus on international contracts in trade, insurance and transport, including bills of lading, time & voyage charterparties, LOF salvage, sale and distribution contracts, logistics, marine and non-marine insurance, shipbuilding and asset sale & purchase. | Tuesday, 31 October 2017 |
