Ropes & Gray embarks on hiring spree

· M&A private equity lawyers Jonathan Gill and Robb Tretter joined Ropes & Gray’s New York office as partners. Both were previously with Bracewell & Giuliani.

· Elsewhere Ropes recruited capital markets and M&A lawyer Victoria Lloyd to its Hong Kong office. And joining the firm’s London office is Mark Wesseldine, a financing and restructuring lawyer. Both were previously with rival law firm Fried Frank. 

· Leaving Ropes & Gray is Marcia Ellis, who joins the Hong Kong office of Morrison & Foerster as a private equity M&A partner. 

· Jeremy Dickens is stepping down from his role as co-head of Weil, Gotshal & Manges’ global capital markets practice to join Shearman & Sterling. Dickens, a private equity lawyer who covers a wide range of industry matters including M&A, corporate governance and SEC investigations, joins Shearman as a New York-based partner. 

· Robin Feiner joined Proskauer’s New York office, where she focuses on IPOs and equities. She was most recently executive director of equity capital markets and corporate finance at UBS. 

· Stephen Ross will co-head Sidley Austin’s London investment funds practice. He was previously general counsel of London-based Man Group, a hedge fund advisor. 

· Dentons snagged former SJ Berwin partner Nicholas Plant to spearhead its private equity group across the UK, Middle East and Africa region.

· David Van Horne joined Goodwin Procter’s San Francisco office. Van Horne, who focuses on emerging growth companies and advising venture capital funds, was previously with Gunderson Dettmer.

· Funds compliance lawyer Nabil Sabki has left Kirkland & Ellis to join Latham & Watkin’s Chicago office. 

· Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton has added venture capital and emerging companies lawyer John Hempill as part of a string of hires to its New York City office. He was previously with Morrison Foerster.

Know of any private equity lawyer career moves we might have missed? If so, email PEM editor Nicholas Donato at nicholas.d@peimedia.com.