City Moves for 30 August – Who’s switching jobs at KPMG, Queensberry and Fieldfisher?
Today’s City Moves includes KPMG, Queensberry and Fieldfisher.
KPMG
KPMG has hired two new Partners to further strengthen its legal services offering. Kate Eades was previously a corporate partner at Greenberg Traurig and Usman Wahid was previously a commercial and technology partner at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner. Both partners will start in September and will join the KPMG business structuring and transactions group in London. Prior to Greenberg Traurig, Kate worked at Mayer Brown and has built up over 15 years’ experience in corporate law across a wide variety of industry sectors with particular experience in the life sciences and the hospitality and leisure sectors. Kate’s focus is on mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, joint ventures and other equity investments in addition to general corporate advisory work. Usman has more than 15 years’ experience in commercial law gained at Baker & McKenzie, T-Mobile and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner. He specialises in IT/technology and outsourcing transactions and has advised clients on business critical software, systems and infrastructure deals as well as arrangements for new and disruptive technology. His sector expertise lies in utilities, financial services including fintech, transportation, data centres and telecoms.
Queensberry
Urban regeneration specialist Queensberry has appointed Alex Hyams as asset manager. Alex will help advise on existing assets in the firm’s investment portfolio, as well as supporting on the acquisition of new stock. Alex joined Queensberry in August, and will work with the team on identifying new opportunities across the country. He has more than 10 years of experience in property and asset management, having most recently worked at Morgan Management to manage a property portfolio worth around £500m. This portfolio comprised largely of secondary retail, residential, office, industrial, land and leisure properties, mainly in Greater London with substantial holdings in Brighton and Bournemouth.
Fieldfisher
Peter Golden is joining Fieldfisher to lead the European law firm’s private client practice, to help capitalise on its strong existing reputation in trusts, real estate and tax advice for wealthy individuals and charities. Peter will join the firm from Linklaters, where he has led the trusts team since 2016. Peter’s experience encompasses a broad range of trust, private client and charity work, with a large proportion of offshore clients primarily in the ultra-high net worth bracket and foreign nationals based in the UK. Peter advised private clients at Withers and Forsters before joining Linklaters, and has a reputation as a leading specialist in wills and trusts and as an expert in the ongoing management of his clients’ assets, affairs and estates.
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