DLA Piper today announces that project finance lawyer Nacim Bounouara has joined the firm as a partner in its Finance and Projects practice, based in London. More >>

King & Spalding has recruited project development and financing specialist Nikhil Markanday and arbitration and public international law expert Giorgio Mandelli as partners in the firm’s London office. More >>

Reed Smith today announced that restructuring and insolvency lawyer Mandip Englund has joined its Financial Industry Group (FIG) as a partner in London. Mandip has acted on a number of high profile cross-border insolvencies and restructurings and her experience includes project financings and distressed work for companies, financial stakeholders, equity sponsors, advisory firms, creditors and insolvency practitioners in relation to strategy, transactions and contentious matters. Her practice includes the financial services, retail, and energy and commodities sectors, industries of specific importance to the firm. More >>

International law firm Clifford Chance has appointed Toby Parkinson as a partner in the firm’s multi-award-winning European Infrastructure Group, based in London. In 2016, Toby joined OMERS Infrastructure in London as Director, Legal where he provides legal advice and support on new investment opportunities, the management of infrastructure assets across Europe, and third-party capital-raise efforts. More >>

Allen & Overy announces the appointment of Tim Watson as a restructuring partner into its London practice. Tim re-joins A&O from a leading global institutional investment management firm with assets under management in excess of USD30 billion, where he has spent the past four years working closely with and advising the distressed investment desk on transactions across Europe and Asia Pacific. Prior to this he was a senior associate in A&O’s restructuring team. More >>

Akin Gump today announced that private equity funds lawyers Daniel Quinn and Aleksander Bakic will join the firm in London as partners. They will come to Akin Gump from O’Melveny & Myers in London. More >>

Global law firm White & Case LLP has expanded its Construction Practice with the addition of Richard Hill as a partner in the London office. Richard joins White & Case from Norton Rose Fulbright, where he was a partner and previously led the Energy Project Finance Team. More >>

Thekla Fellas joins to lead a group specialising in the “Telecoms Code”. Eversheds Sutherland is pleased to announce the appointment of Thekla Fellas as a new Partner in the Real Estate Litigation team. Thekla will join the team on 1 April 2019. More >>

Dechert LLP has expanded its leading global funds practice with the addition of London-based partner, Thiha Tun. Spanning key European fund domiciles, as well as the U.S., Middle East and Asia, Dechert’s financial services practice adds Mr. Tun to its 200 lawyer-strong investment funds team. More >>

Brendan joins the business from Dentons, and he specialises in advising lenders, borrowers and private equity sponsors. His practice covers local, UK and international real estate finance (including real estate investment and development senior and mezzanine finance deals), as well as asset-backed and energy & infrastructure transactions including the financing of data centres, capacity market and smart meter assets. More >>