Latham & Watkins has strengthened its London and New York offices with the hire litigator Ian Felstead in London and Allen & Overy corporate partner Peter Harwich in New York, where the firm has also added tax partner Elena Romanova.
Harwich leaves Allen & Overy’s New York office are more than 15 years at the Magic Circle firm, where he worked on a number of high-profile deals for corporate clients. Last year Harwich led an Allen & Overy team advising media giant Thomson Reuters Corp. on the $3.55 billion sale of its intellectual property and science business to a pair of private equity firms. In 2011, he took the lead for German software maker SAP SE on its $3.4 billion buy of SuccessFactors Inc.
