Global law firm Reed Smith has announced the addition of Elle Todd in London. Previously a partner and Head of Digital and Data at CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP, Elle has worked for the largest corporations and household names as well as technology start-ups and entrepreneurs. More >>

DAC Beachcroft has bolstered its banking and finance offering with the hire of ex-Kirkland & Ellis partner Chris Wall as Head of Banking. More >>

Dentons has bolstered its UK employment and pensions capabilities with the hire of partner Eleanor Hart in London. More >>

Mayer Brown is pleased to announce that it will expand its contentious investigations and regulatory capabilities following the recruitment of Chris Chapman, who will join the firm’s Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice in London as a partner on 20 March 2019. Chris will join Mayer Brown from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP as head of contentious insurance regulation. More >>

Myles Mantle, a project development and finance lawyer who has handled significant matters across the globe, has joined Haynes and Boone, LLP’s London office as a partner in the Energy Practice Group. Myles joins the firm from Jones Day, where he was a partner in the Projects & Infrastructure Practice. More >>

Leading global law firm Baker McKenzie has hired Peter Lu as a Partner and Head of the China Group in London, joining its fast-growing London Corporate practice. Peter joins the Firm on Monday from White & Case where he was head of their EMEA China desk and Counsel in their London M&A practice. His hire follows that of White & Case Capital Markets partners Rob Mathews and David Becker last month. More >>

Morrison & Foerster, a leading global law firm, is pleased to announce that Oliver s’Jacob has joined the firm’s London office as a partner in its global Private Equity Real Estate (PERE) practice. With the arrival of Mr. s’Jacob, Morrison & Foerster has expanded its global real estate practice to London, further strengthening its growing global offering. Mr. s’Jacob comes to Morrison & Foerster from Reed Smith, where he chaired their European Private Equity Real Estate practice. The addition of Mr. s’Jacob follows the arrival in late 2017 of Florian Ehrich, who joined to build out the real estate practice in Germany. More >>

Further expanding its global energy platform, Pillsbury today welcomed highly-regarded Gavin Watson as partner in its London office. Watson, who advises clients on cross-border corporate and commercial transactions in jurisdictions around the world, comes to the firm from Dechert LLP where he was Co-Head of the International Oil & Gas Group. More >>

Baker McKenzie has hired leading capital markets partners Rob Mathews and David Becker to join its growing Corporate Finance practice in London. Both join the Firm from White & Case this month and will play a key role in further developing the Firm’s full service leveraged finance practice, together with lateral partner hires Matthew Cox, Haden Henderson, Bevis Metcalfe, Geoff O’Dea, Nick O’Grady and Matthew Smith. More >>

Mayer Brown announced today that Dasha Sobornova has joined the firm’s Banking & Finance practice in London as a partner. Her appointment enhances the firm’s structured finance team and builds on its collateralised loan obligation (CLO) offering in London. Dasha was previously at Paul Hastings. More >>