Taylor Wessing London head of healthcare Hamid Yunis has left the firm for McDermott Will & Emery in London.
Yunis worked at Taylor Wessing for 14 years, having also served as head of Islamic finance and leading the firm’s Middle East practice in 2012.
At McDermott Yunis will be the firm’s London health partner-in-charge tasked with leading and developing its UK practice. He will work with other transactional partners on joint ventures involving clients in the health industry, as well as public-private partnerships and funding arrangements.
The move follows McDermott launching a new strategy earlier this year, which spotlighted its corporate practice alongside its private client work. The firm also said it would build on its health advisory brand outside the US.
The firm’s City office has made a number of lateral partner hires this year, particularly in its corporate group. These include WilmerHale partner Michael Holter and Duane Morris partner Piero Carbone, who have both joined former Taylor Wessing partner Mark Davis in the corporate team.
McDermott is gearing up for a leadership change after its chairmen Jeffrey Stone and Peter Sacripanti announced they would stand down at the end of the year, just months after they were re-elected to the position.
The firm’s global turnover dropped last year by nearly 1 per cent from $900m to $891.5m (£613.6m), while profit per equity partner rose 3.3 per cent from $1.53m to $1.58m (£1.09m).
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