Wake Up Call: Winston & Strawn Gets Finance Partner in Chicago

In today’s column, as Covid uncertainties cause law firms to opt for short-term office leases post-pandemic, it’s a buyers’ market; Squire Patton Boggs recruited a former ambassador as a partner in Atlanta; Sidley Austin, Troutman Pepper, and Barnes & Thornburg posted increased revenue and profits for 2020 despite Covid’s economic cloud; a prominent pro-Trump lawyer got booted from an Atlanta lawyers’ club.

• Leading off, Winston & Strawn hired leveraged finance specialist Andrew Hutchinson, a former Katten lawyer, as a partner in Chicago. Arriving most recently from Golub Capital, where he was a lending counsel, Hutchinson represents direct lenders, banks, ...