Paul Hastings hits eight PE partners in eight months, and the deal-side wire stays hot

Paul Hastings pulled a private equity partner out of Dechert in New York, and by the firm's own count that's the eighth PE partner it has added in eight months across New York, Boston, and London. Ropes and Gray hired Paul Weiss's financial services leader to run its own financial services group, and Sidley kept its hiring spree going with a pair of life sciences partners from Cooley in California. The deal side stayed busy too: Paul Weiss added an energy M&A partner in Houston, Latham brought on an executive compensation partner in New York from Ropes and Gray, and Loeb and Loeb added a finance partner from Cadwalader. Winston Taylor named a new international trade chair in Washington.

On the business side, Vinson and Elkins named a new COO who came out of legal AI, and North Carolina became the first state to ban third-party litigation funding.