Revered technology partner John Salmon is set to join Hogan Lovells in London as the firm powers up its Fintech team. He will sit in the corporate practice and be an active member of the financial institutions and TMT sectors. More >>

International law firm Dorsey & Whitney LLP announced today that Paul Denham has joined the Firm as a Partner in London and will work very closely with both the Corporate and Finance Groups. More >>

Squire Patton Boggs has announced the appointment of Litigation partner Chris Webber, who has joined the firm from Berwin Leighton Paisner. More >>

Pillsbury today announced the addition of Tina Blázquez-López as counsel in the Finance practice. Blázquez-López will be based in the firm’s London office, and she joins from McCarthy Tétrault. Her practice focuses on international banking and finance, project finance and acquisitions with a concentration on the energy and infrastructure sectors and emerging markets in Africa, the Middle East and throughout Europe. More >>

Herbert Smith Freehills is pleased to announce the appointment of Finance partner Gabrielle Wong to its London office. More >>

Leading global law firm Baker & McKenzie has continued to bolster its Dispute Resolution and Corporate Tax capabilities in London with the appointments of leading banking litigation partner Hugh Lyons and transfer pricing specialist Jukka Karjalainen as Tax Leader of the UK Business Transformation practice*. Both join the Firm this month. More >>

The London office of global law firm K&L Gates LLP has added John Gilbert as a partner in the firm’s energy and international arbitration practices. He joins K&L Gates from Pinsent Masons LLP in London, and previously was a member of the dispute resolution team at BP — one of the world’s leading oil and gas companies — where he handled global commercial disputes. More >>

Dechert LLP, a global specialist law firm, is pleased to announce that Paul Fleming has joined the firm as a partner in London. More >>

Dentons is pleased to announce that leading corporate partner David Collins has joined the Firm in London. Formerly Managing Partner of Corporate at Berwin Leighton Paisner, David is a highly experienced UK corporate finance practitioner who is ranked as a Band 1 individual for mid-market M&A in Chambers and is listed as a “Leading Individual” for small and mid-cap flotations in The Legal 500. More >>

International law firm Pinsent Masons has expanded its finance team with the appointment of real estate finance expert Richard Hughes. Richard, who specialises in finance and restructuring work, joins from Simmons & Simmons where he was a partner. He has extensive experience advising lenders and borrowers active across sectors including real estate, energy, infrastructure and financial services. More >>