Law firm Paul Hastings has appointed Charles Cardon, a corporate partner with a focus on takeovers, M&A, private equity, and capital markets transactions, to the firm’s team in Paris. “We’re meeting our clients’ demand for deeper European capabilities in M&A, private equity and finance,” says Seth Zachary, chair of Paul Hastings.

Frank Herzog has joined EQT portfolio company VFS Global as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) effective 1 October 2019. Herzog will lead the overall Finance function and will also be responsible for M&A, Legal, Internal Audit, and Procurement functions of VFS Global. He is a member of the Executive Board of

Eisner has continued the expansion of its New York office with the appointment of Kate F Buckley as a partner. Buckley will head the firm’s corporate practice in New York. “This is an important step forward for our firm and our growing New York office,” says Eisner chair Michael Eisner. “Kate is incredibly

Ocorian, a provider of trust, administration and fiduciary services, has expanded its senior team in London with appointment of a Business Development Director and Head of Client Services. Kristina Rowe brings over 20 years of financial services experience to Ocorian, joining from State Street where she worked in the private

Global law firm Goodwin has opened a new office in Luxembourg. Together with Goodwin’s existing London-based Luxembourg desk, the new office will serve as a single solution for the firm’s global clients raising and deploying capital in Europe. “With a market-leading funds practice in the United States and Europe, and

RWC Partners, a UK-based asset management business, has appointed Huan Ke as a new Head of Legal and Compliance. Ke has over 19 years of experience and joins from Macquarie Asset Management where he spent eight years as Head of Legal (EMEA) for the Macquarie Investment Management and Macquarie Private

HSBC Global Asset Management has appointed Jorge Huitron as Senior Product Specialist for private markets in the firm’s Alternatives Team. Huitron will be responsible for the developing HSBC Global Asset Management’s private markets offering and expanding the platform to a larger institutional investor base across Europe and Asia.   Huitron

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher has appointed Michelle Kirschner as a partner in the firm’s London office. Kirschner, formerly a partner with Macfarlanes, will continue to focus on financial services regulation at Gibson Dunn. “We are pleased to welcome Michelle to the firm,” says Ken Doran, Chairman and Managing Partner of

City law firm McCarthy Denning has appointed a new Partner, Dr Werner Meier, who will be working across three of the firm’s core sector practices: Restructuring, Banking and Finance, and Corporate. Meier is one of the leading European finance and restructuring lawyers with a multinational practice, having previously worked out

Dentons has continued to strengthen its Corporate team in London with the hire of M&A and private equity specialist Paul Doris, who was most recently a partner in Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe’s London office. Having previously worked in Madrid, Frankfurt and Paris, Doris specialises in advising international financial sponsors (including