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KWM funds architect Blake latest to exit troubled firm

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Legal Business
11 January 2017
Strategic recruitment

US firm O’Melveny & Myers is the latest to benefit from partner exits at King & Wood Mallesons‘ European arm, as head of funds Jonathan Blake will join the firm.

Blake (pictured), who is considered a pioneer of the legal market for investment funds in Europe, will be assisting O’Melveny in advising private and public funds and institutional investors in private equity.

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