Hogan Lovells has boosted its German finance practice with the hire of a two-partner derivatives team from Mayer Brown, consisting of European capital markets head and global partnership board member Jochen Seitz, and derivatives partner Peter Maier. Hogan Lovells’ global finance head Sharon Lewis said that Seitz and Maier’s combination of derivatives and regulatory expertise makes them a “unique proposition” within the German market.
Latham & Watkins has added to its finance practice with the hire of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer partner Simeon Rudin in London. Rudin, who joins Latham as a counsel, focuses on acting for banks and insurance companies on matters such as equity and structured credit transactions, structured insurance transactions and regulatory and transactional fintech matters.
