Paul Hastings has appointed private equity lawyer Samantha McGonigle as a partner in the firm’s London office. McGonigle is a former private equity partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP and co-founder of a PE firm that invests in growth-focused enterprise technology companies across Europe.
Paul Hastings has grown its London office over the past 12 months with 10 lateral partners, including a Band 1 global finance team, top-ranked infrastructure and energy partners Jessamy Gallagher and Stuart Rowson, leading high-yield partner Patrick Bright, IP litigation partner Jason Raeburn, and private equity and M&A specialist Tom Cartwright, among others.
Globally, the firm has added partners over the last year across a dozen practices, including finance, M&A, private equity, structured credit, securities and capital markets, restructuring, infrastructure, investigations and IP, securities and commercial litigation.
