On the Move ...

Lawyers moving from firm to firm or to a company as In House counsel should hardly be news ... it happens all the time. But, its always news. Either because of the personality surplus of the person in question or simply because of the high interest of lawyers to all that happen in their "exciting" universe.

Last week was one of those that had everyone buzzing ... Kem Iheanacho, co -head of the Africa practice at Clifford Chance was announced to be leaving CC for US law firm, Latham & Watkins as a private equity partner. To those on this side of the Atlantic who know Kem, this is indeed a major blow to CC. Kem and Ed Boyo (Finance Partner in Frankfurt) have been bullish about Africa and played a major role in swaying a lot of Africa work CCs way. Kem also holds an impressive array of clients - most notably, the Carlyle Group and CVC Capital Partners. For CC this will come as another hit to its private equity team as Kem is following on the heels of other departures, Global Private Equity Head, David Walker and Partner, Tom Evans left the firm in April and October last year.

We'll be sure to feed you in on the 2013 moves in the Nigeria legal market!

We wish Kem well.