US-qualified Beveridge, who is head of the firm’s capital markets America group, is widely credited with significantly boosting the profile of the firm’s US capital markets practice in Europe. He spent nearly decade in
In the coming months he will still spend a significant amount of time in the
Other senior London-based US lawyers to have returned to New York this year include Simpson Thacher & Bartlett corporate partner Walter Looney, who managed the top tier New York firm’s London offering for 10 years before returning to the US in April.
The move to WilmerHale comes after its London office lost four partners and a team of associates from its London office to US rival Heller Ehrman over the summer. London corporate partner Joe Pillman has pledged to rebuild its London corporate team with further lateral hires in the pipeline.
Hardy commented: “Defining success only by whether you become a partner is not enough to attract and retain talented people.”