Greenberg hires ex-Kirkland partner for London restructuring launch

Greenberg Traurig Maher (GTM) is launching a London restructuring practice with the hire of former Kirkland & Ellis partner Lyndon Norley.

Norley will join the US firm in the New Year after serving as a partner with Kirkland in London for seven years. He joined Kirkland in 2002 from Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft to launch a UK insolvency team but left in October.

While at Kirkland, he served as European head of restructuring where he oversaw the growth of the practice, including last October's hires of Jason Salman from Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft and Paul Atherton from Sidley Austin as partners.

His move to Greenberg is the latest in a stream of partner recruitment by the US firm, which launched in the City in June with the hire of former Mayer Brown partner Paul Maher (pictured). Most recently the firm hired real estate partner Tim Webb from Eversheds to launch its City real estate practice.

Other hires include, banking and capital markets partners Tim Jeveons, Andrew Caunt and Andrew Croxford all from White & Case.

Commenting on Norley’s hire, GTM’s London chairman Paul Maher said: “We knew that we wanted restructuring capabilities and distressed M&A is an important area. In the States the firm has a strong bankruptcy and restructuring practice and so hiring Lyndon made a lot of sense.”