Cooley is enhancing its global private equity group with the appointment of three new partners.  Ron Hopkinson joins in New York from Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, where he was head of the firm’s private equity group. Eric Schwartzman joins in Palo Alto from Weil, Gotshal & Manges’ Silicon Valley office.

International law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges has appointed James MacArthur as a partner in the firm’s Corporate practice. He will be based in Weil’s London office and will focus on private equity and M&A transactions in the infrastructure and real estate sectors.  MacArthur joins from Herbert Smith Freehills, where

Norwest Equity Partners (NEP) and Norwest Mezzanine Partners (NMP), have hired Charles P Moorse to serve as the firms' in-house General Counsel.  In this role, Moorse will have responsibility for providing leadership, expertise and support on a wide range of legal matters. NEP and NMP have consistently made successful investments

Lovell Minnick Partners, a private equity firm specialising in financial and related business services companies, has named Steven C Pierson as President and Partner.  Pierson, who will start his duties at Lovell Minnick in June, comes to the firm from UBS, where he most recently served as the Head of

Private equity corporate partner David Holdsworth and private equity tax partner Tim Lowe are to join the London office of Kirland & Ellis International from Linklaters. “David and Tim are exceptionally talented lawyers with strong track records advising clients on a variety of international private equity transactions,” says Jeffrey C