DLA Piper reportedly lifts a Latham private credit trio

Bloomberg Law reports DLA Piper is hiring a Latham & Watkins private credit partner in New York to lead a new private credit group. Two Latham & Watkins counsel are joining too. The partner spent 16 years at Latham. Mayer Brown added a senior special counsel from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in New York, who joins as a partner in Mayer Brown's capital markets practice.

On the business side, The American Lawyer counts at least 33 partners Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has hired this year who work with private equity clients or handle PE-related work, 17 of them in New York.