- Four partners from elite litigation firm Boies Schiller Flexner are joining the law firm of King & Spalding, Business Insider has learned.
- The exits contribute to a list of more than 30 partners who have left the firm in recent months.
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Four partners from elite litigation firm Boies Schiller Flexner are heading to King & Spalding, Business Insider has learned.
Damien Marshall, Andrew Michaelson, Laura Harris, and Leigh Nathanson gave notice at BSF on Thursday, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter.
Reached Thursday, King & Spalding confirmed the moves and Marshall provided comment.
“We were thinking about opportunities in the marketplace and King & Spalding just separated itself from all the other firms we were looking at,” said Marshall.
He pointed to the firm’s trial and litigation practice as a draw, and said that a start date for the group has yet to be determined.
“I’m looking forward to working with my new colleagues,” he said.
The departing partners have represented companies including HSBC, DraftKings, and Barclays, and work out of the firm’s New York office.
A spokeswoman for BSF declined to comment.
The moves come two months after King & Spalding hired 13 BSF attorneys to its trial and investigations group in California. Most of that group had joined BSF in 2017 when the firm acquired the litigation boutique Caldwell Leslie.
But the most recent group of BSF departures are comprised of attorneys who were not part of that merger.
Michaelson previously served in government in the SEC and in the US Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York, where he led the Galleon insider trading investigation.
At BSF, he’s represented Nike in connection with the Justice Department’s corruption investigation into NCAA basketball, among other matters.
Marshall, on the other hand, has represented a handful of clients in litigation over the years, including BNY Mellon, DraftKings, and HSBC. He was also on the firm’s executive committee, and sat on its management committee before new co-managing partners Natasha Harrison and Nicholas Gravante started leading the firm in December.
Business Insider previously catalogued the internal firm dynamics that have led up to more than 30 partners departing Boies Schiller over the past six months, including partners who wanted more transparency into firm management and better pay.
Last week, Karen Dunn and Bill Isaacson, two star partners, left to join Paul Weiss, a law firm with a track record of representing Wall Street executives in investigations and lawsuits over allegations of financial improprieties.
Earlier this month, partner David Pressman, who represented Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman during impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, said he would join the law firm of Jenner & Block.
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