White & Case is continuing its hiring spree in the City, recruiting Hogan Lovells corporate partner Guy Potel.
Potel will be working with White & Case’s private equity team on portfolio company exits, as well as the equity capital markets group on issuer IPOs.
At Hogan Lovells, Potel has been involved in multiple billion-dollar transactions, representing Goldman Sachs in connection with BHP Billiton’s $147bn offer for Rio Tinto in 2008. He has also advised Telecity Group on acquisitions across Europe.
Potel joined legacy Lovells in 2008 as a senior associate in the corporate finance group. He was made of counsel a year later and was elevated to the partnership once Lovells merged with Hogan & Hartson in 2010.
Prior to Lovells, Potel trained and worked at Clifford Chance before moving to Slaughter and May in 2005.
White & Case has been on a hiring spree in the City recently, recruiting two Ashurst partners in quick succession. Disputes partner Mark Clarke is due to start at the US firm, as well as capital markets partner Jonathan Parry.
The hires are in line with White & Case’s five year strategy, in which it wants to focus on its M&A practice in industries such as financial institutions, technoloy and private equity.
A spokesperson at Hogan Lovells confirmed the move and wished Potel well.