ICLG | M&A and Securitisation Moves for K&L Gates and Alston & Bird in Paris and London

James Fisher is featured as a new structured finance partner in the firm’s London office, with  Shanell Cramer quoted and partners Andrew Petersen, James Spencer, and James Ashe-Taylor mentioned.

Alston & Bird has expanded its London finance practice with the addition of James Fisher as partner. Fisher arrives from Reed Smith LLP, where he was a structured finance partner representing corporate trustees and agents on the full range of financial products, both cross-border and domestically.

James Fisher is noted as a new structured finance partner in the firm’s London office, and Shanell Cramer is quoted.

In a strategic decision to expand its European practice, Alston & Bird has opened a London office on the strength of its growing finance and payments practices. The office supports the firm’s finance and payments industry clients doing business in the U.K. and across Europe, as well as local investors and clients transacting business in the United States.

Alston & Bird has deepened its ability to advise U.S. and European clients across a range of financial and corporate restructurings and insolvency mandates with the addition of Anna Nolan as counsel in the firm’s London office. Arriving from Paul Hastings LLP, Nolan advises stakeholders in both contentious and noncontentious matters, with a focus on transactions involving structured finance and real estate.