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- Herbert Smith Freehills’ (HSF) corporate practice saw a seasoned trio of partners quit in August for Morgan, Lewis & Bockius’s London arm. They were led by HSF’s head of London private equity Mark Geday, and included corporate partners Nicholas Moore and Tomasz Wozniak.
- DWF in August recruited Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s chief of business operations, Anup Kollanethu, in a hire which will increase the services clout of the firm ahead of its stock exchange listing. Kollanethu had made a significant impact at Freshfields, being the architect behind the firm’s combined legal and business services operation in Manchester.
- Restructuring star Yen Sum spent little time settling in at Sidley Austin, deciding instead to join Latham & Watkins. Sum joined Latham alongside a fellow Linklaters alumni, finance partner Jennifer Brennan.
- White & Case continued its disputes drive by hiring contentious construction partner David Robertson from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner and commercial litigator Steven Baker from Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. The hires continue an aggressive City strategy by White & Case, with Robertson and Baker being the firm’s eighth and ninth laterals this year.
- Latham & Watkins inflicted further woe on the City elite in August, hiring two established names in infrastructure private equity. Brendan Moylan joined from Clifford Chance alongside Allen & Overy finance specialist Conrad Andersen.
