White & Case London finance partner jumps to Clifford Chance

(Reuters) – London-based finance lawyer Jill Concannon Christie has joined Clifford Likelihood as a accomplice, the U.Okay. regulation agency stated Thursday, marking the second finance accomplice specializing in high-yield bonds to depart White & Case for a rival in London this week.
Christie practiced at White & Case for greater than 15 years, with a clientele that has included Deutsche Financial institution, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Citigroup, Commonplace Chartered, Barclays, BofA Securities and HSBC financial institution, in response to her former webpage on the agency.

On Wednesday, rival U.S. agency Weil, Gotshal & Manges individually recruited White & Case high-yield bond specialist Gilles Teerlinck, who led the agency’s high-yield observe in France and cut up his time between Paris and London.

“Jill’s rent displays the agency’s continued funding to strengthen not solely our high-yield staff in London, but additionally our U.S. securities staff in Europe and globally,” Michael Dakin, world chief of Clifford Likelihood’s capital markets observe, stated in an announcement.

Christie has been vice-chair of the high-yield division of the Affiliation for Monetary Markets in Europe (AFME) since 2019, in response to her LinkedIn profile.

A White & Case spokesperson confirmed Christie’s departure from the agency and stated the agency wished her nicely. She is because of be a part of Clifford Likelihood in March.

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