Orrick Hires Partner Trio, Tapping Kirkland, Cravath, Cooley

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has hired a trio of corporate partners by recruiting from rival Big Law firms Kirkland & Ellis, Cooley, and Cravath, Swaine & Moore.

Private equity-focused Leah Recht joins in San Francisco from Kirkland, where she made partner in 2015. Edward Dyson, a London-based capital markets partner, heads to Orrick from Cooley. And New York-based capital markets partner Mark Mushkin is making the jump from Cravath, where he was a senior attorney.

The hires are focused on building young, rising talent in the firm’s M&A and capital markets practices, Orrick said in a statement. And they come ...