Greg Lascelles has joined Covington as a partner in the European Dispute Resolution practice resident in the firm’s London office. More >>

Eversheds has today announced the appointment of London partners Mark Dennison and Conrad Purcell who join from Norton Rose Fulbright. More >>

Latham & Watkins is pleased to announce that Nicola Higgs will join the firm’s London office as a partner in the Financial Institutions Group. An experienced financial regulatory practitioner, Higgs specializes in advising banks, investment firms, asset managers and insurance firms on a wide range of complex regulatory and compliance matters. More >>

Winston & Strawn LLP announced today that Michael Stepek will join the firm as a partner in its International Arbitration Practice in London. Mr. Stepek, who focuses on international commercial arbitration and investment treaty arbitration, comes to Winston from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP. More >>

Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that three structured finance partners will join the firm in London. The partners, Michael Smith, Diala Minott and Cameron Saylor, will join the firm from Ashurst LLP. More >>

Oil and gas transactional lawyer Kevin Atkins has joined Locke Lord as a Partner in the London office. Atkins has extensive experience working on complex cross-border acquisitions and divestitures, asset level farm-ins and farm-outs and joint venture structures for international oil and gas companies as well as representing clients across the energy sector seeking to raise capital whether by way of private equity investment or accessing equity capital markets or debt and project finance facilities. More >>

Morrison & Foerster, a leading global law firm, is pleased to announce that Oliver Rochman has joined the firm’s London office as partner in its Corporate practice. Mr. Rochman comes to Morrison & Foerster from Proskauer. He brings to the firm strong expertise in international private investment funds. More >>

International law firm Proskauer announced today the arrival of M&A lawyer Eleanor Shanks as a partner in the Firm’s London office. More >>

Akin Gump today announced that Igor Krivoshekov will join the firm as a partner in its cross-border transactions practice in London. Mr. Krivoshekov is expected to join Akin Gump in December 2016 from Dentons, where he is one of the leaders of the UKMEA private equity practice. He has practiced extensively in the United States and Russia and has particular experience in the oil and gas sectors. More >>

Dentons has significantly enhanced its UK Real Estate sector capability with the hire of five partners from Irwin Mitchell:
•Rob Thomson, Head of London Real Estate, Rupert Dowdell and Lewis Myers – all of whom specialise in investment and development work;
•Head of Real Estate Finance Simon Tweedle; and
•Head of Corporate Real Estate Jayne Schnider. More >>