Alex Ryan

6 days ago | legalbusiness.co.uk | Alex Ryan

Latham & Watkins has made a major addition to its M&A practice in New York with the hire of Wachtell partner Zach Podolsky, marking a rare corporate exit from the elite Wall Street firm. Podolsky is following his former Wachtell colleague John Sobolewski, who moved to Latham in February, joining as global head of liability management and vice chair of capital markets. Your limit of 1 article in 30 days is up. Please login for full access or .

6 days ago | legalbusiness.co.uk | Alex Ryan

Latham & Watkins has made a major addition to its M&A practice in New York with the hire of Wachtell partner Zach Podolsky (pictured), marking a rare corporate exit from the elite Wall Street firm. Podolsky is following his former Wachtell colleague John Sobolewski, who moved to Latham in February, joining as global head of liability management and vice chair of capital markets. Your limit of 1 article in 30 days is up. Please login for full access or .

1 week ago | legalbusiness.co.uk | Alex Ryan

Baker McKenzie has hired investment funds partner Nick Benson into its London office from Latham & Watkins. A Legal 500 leading partner for private funds, Benson spent more than a decade at Latham after joining from Weil in 2014, and has expertise advising a wide range of clients on issues across fund formation and operations.

1 week ago | legalbusiness.co.uk | Alex Ryan

The Legal Business Global London ranking – which ranks the fifty biggest non-UK firms by their London headcount – is largely made up of the biggest firms in the world, with 90% of those fifty also featuring among the Global 100 revenue rankings. But while revenue and headcount tell one side of the story, there are of course many other criteria that clients care about when choosing a law firm. Your limit of 1 article in 30 days is up. Please login for full access or .

1 week ago | legalbusiness.co.uk | Alex Ryan

A&O Shearman global financial services regulatory co-head and financial institutions sector lead Barnabas Reynolds has left the firm to join Sullivan & Cromwell, in an extremely rare lateral hire for the US firm in London. Reynolds, who is a Legal 500 Hall of Famer for non-contentious financial services, was one of the most high-profile partners at legacy Shearman & Sterling, where he headed up the firm’s global financial services practice.