Elite Transatlantic Private Funds Team to Join Gibson Dunn
Firm News | November 12, 2026
Transformational hires in New York, Washington, D.C., and London reinforce Gibson Dunn’s position as a global, full-service private funds powerhouse
Gibson Dunn announced today that a market-leading transatlantic private funds group comprising over 120 lawyers, including 23 partners, will be joining the firm’s New York, Washington, D.C., and London offices from Weil, Gotshal & Manges. The addition of this elite group brings transformative scale and firepower to the firm’s Investment Funds Practice Group, creating one of the largest and most sophisticated funds platforms in the market.
The incoming group of leading private funds lawyers includes partner Jonathon Soler and Weil’s co-heads of private funds: New York-based partner Andrew Chizzik and London-based partners James Bromley and James Sargent.
“Continuing to invest in our market-leading global private capital platform is a key priority for the firm, and the arrival of this outstanding group marks a significant step forward in that strategy,” said Barbara Becker, Chair and Managing Partner of Gibson Dunn. “As client demand for sophisticated investment funds advice continues to grow across asset classes, this team’s exceptional reputation, deep technical expertise, and longstanding client relationships will expand our ability to support leading private fund sponsors on their most consequential matters. Their collaborative approach and commitment to clients make them a natural fit for our culture, and we are delighted they have chosen to join us.”
The multidisciplinary group strengthens Gibson Dunn’s ability to support sponsors from fundraising through investment and exit, complementing the firm’s private capital capabilities across a wide range of strategies and asset classes, including private equity, growth equity, private credit, special situations, real estate, and infrastructure.
Ranked among the most prestigious global funds teams, the incoming group advises leading alternative asset managers, private capital sponsors, and institutional investors. The team helps clients address evolving fundraising, liquidity, and investor demands through complex cross-border fund formations, GP-led and LP-led secondaries, fund restructurings, strategic GP-stakes transactions, fund finance, and bespoke co-investment and managed account arrangements.
The team offers fully integrated capabilities across fund structuring, regulatory, tax, and finance, providing seamless advice throughout the fund lifecycle. The U.S. partners joining are Jonathon Soler, Andrew Chizzik, Sarah Borden, Brittany Burnham, Lana Castor, Menachem Danishefsky, Robert Frastai, David Greene, Cassie Kimmelman, Kristine Koren, Chris Scully, Becki Steinberg, and David Wohl. The London partners joining are James Bromley, James Sargent, Phil Baynes, Fiona Cumming, Aron Joy, Hannah Laurie, Nick Roxburgh, Marc Schubert, Sophie Smith, and Jacquelyn Volpe.
“This is the most sought-after cross-border funds team in the market, and their arrival is a defining moment for our practice,” added Shukie Grossman, Global Chair of the Investment Funds Practice Group at Gibson Dunn. “Private funds sit at the heart of global private capital, and this group advises on some of the largest, most sophisticated, and structurally complex transactions in the industry. Following a series of significant investments in New York, London, Paris, and Dubai, this group, together with our existing global bench, puts the firm in a category of its own. We couldn’t be more excited to welcome them.”
The arrivals represent the latest step in the growth and development of the firm’s Global Investment Funds Practice Group, following the addition earlier this year of France’s preeminent investment funds team in Paris which includes partners Xavier Comaills, Marie Préat, Elodie Cinconze, and Pierre Goyat, and of counsel Véronique de Hemmer Gudme, Benjamin Massot, and Louis-Guillaume Cousin. The practice has also recently welcomed James O’Donnell, Hannah Watson Fanin and their team, as well as Chris Slack in London; Carolyn Abram and her team in Dubai; and Andy Hogan, Christopher Scavone, James Manzione, Blake Estes, Marian Fowler, Duncan McKay, and MacRae Robinson in the U.S.
The incoming team brings leading industry recognition on both sides of the Atlantic, including consecutive Law360 Fund Formation Group of the Year awards in 2024 and 2025 for its New York practice and “Legal Advisor of the Year (Funds)” at the 2026 Mergermarket European Private Equity Awards for its London practice. The team also holds leading rankings from Chambers and The Legal 500 and ranked first globally for infrastructure fund formation by aggregate fund value in Infrastructure Investor’s 2025 league table and second in 2026. The group will join Gibson Dunn on January 1, 2027.