Wake Up Call: Cooley Grabs Latham Capital Markets Partner in London

In today’s column, Mayer Brown poached a prominent Paul Hastings white collar partner in D.C., while Boies lost its third partner this week; European reports say several unidentified U.S. law firms were hit by a ransomware attack; and Reed Smith launched a free, mobile eDiscovery app.

• Leading off, Cooley expanded its capital markets practice in London, grabbing partner David Boles away from Latham & Watkins, where he’d been 14 years, most recently as a partner. Boles re-joins capital markets partner Claire Keast-Butler, who arrived from Latham in 2019. Boles has advised on initial public offerings and follow-on offerings on ...