Law firm Dechert has hired Holland West as a partner in its financial services practice in New York. Until 2005 he was head of the global hedge fund, private equity, derivatives, and structured finance practices at Shearman & Sterling. Since 2007 he has also acted as of counsel to Shearman & Sterling on a part time basis. West was previously a partner at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, where he was the head of the asset management and derivatives practices, and an assistant general counsel at Goldman Sachs, advising its capital markets,...