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 >>

International law firm Brown Rudnick LLP is pleased to announce the expansion of its European Finance and Special Situations Practice Group with the appointment of two new partners, James Cole and Iden Asl. More >>

Morrison & Foerster, a leading global law firm, is pleased to announce that Luke Mines has joined the firm’s London office as a partner in its global Private Equity Real Estate (PERE) practice. Mr. Mines, who comes to Morrison & Foerster from Reed Smith, brings to the firm extensive experience in complex, multi-jurisdictional real estate transactions. He is the second partner to join the firm’s newly established London PERE practice since the start of the year, following the arrival in January 2019 of Oliver s’Jacob, also from Reed Smith. More >>

Mayer Brown is pleased to announce that Michael Fiddy and Amy Jacks will join the firm’s Restructuring, Bankruptcy & Insolvency practice in London as partners. Michael will co-lead Mayer Brown’s global Restructuring, Bankruptcy & Insolvency practice alongside New York-based Brian Trust and Hong Kong-based John Marsden. Amy will co-lead the UK and European Restructuring, Bankruptcy & Insolvency practice alongside Devi Shah. More >>

Dentons is pleased to announce that Bonnie Calnan is to join the London Real Estate team as a partner. Her arrival will further strengthen the practice following a period of significant growth, including the recruitment of five partners from Irwin Mitchell in 2016, the addition of Maclay Murray & Spens’ real estate practice in 2017 and last year’s hire of development and transactional specialist Deepa Deb, also from BCLP. More >>

Prominent capital markets lawyer Claire Keast-Butler has joined Cooley as a partner in London. She arrives from the London office of Latham & Watkins. More >>