Sidley keeps raiding Clifford Chance, this time a five-partner finance group

Sidley Austin kept up its raid on Clifford Chance, poaching a five-partner finance group across New York and Washington, centered on structured and securitization finance. It's the second group Sidley has pulled from Clifford Chance this year, on top of finance partners it has added from Debevoise & Plimpton, O'Melveny & Myers, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, and Latham & Watkins. On the rest of the lateral wire, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld took a deals partner from Paul, Weiss in New York, Seyfarth Shaw added a real estate partner in Chicago, and DLA Piper picked up a debt finance partner in Washington. In Washington, Squire Patton Boggs hired the lead lawyer from House Democrats' Epstein investigation into a leadership role, positioning for an expected wave of post-midterm investigations work.

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