Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison has once again turned to Kirkland & Ellis for another of its London partners, this time tapping one of the firm’s rising corporate stars. Partner Francesca Storey-Harris is set to join Paul Weiss’ London corporate group, according to people familiar with the matter. Storey-Harris leaves Kirkland after almost five year at the Chicago-behemoths. Prior to that, she had been at elite U.K. outfit Slaughter and May for almost eight years, where she first trained. Storey-Harris has experience across a wide range of corporate law transactions for financial sponsor and corporate clients, with a focus on public and private acquisitions, including cross-border deals. She is the latest Kirkland partner to jump ship in London to Paul Weiss, which for the last two years, under the leadership of former Kirkland partners Neel Sachdev and Roger Johnson, has undergone a period of extensive growth that has included the hiring of over 20 partners from their old shop. Although the finance team at Paul Weiss’s London office has been widely acknowledged as having achieved industry success, momentum on the M&A and transactional side has been more muted. In her time at Kirkland, she has played roles on a number of large deals including Thoma Bravo’s $5.3 billion acquisition of cyber company Darktrace, industry manufacturers JM Huber Corporation on its $1.8 billion sale of CP Kelco to sugar makers Tate & Lyle and Blackstone’s $1.3 billion acquisition of music streaming platform Hipgnosis. Commenting on the latest hire, co-chair of the M&A practice and co-head of the London office Roger Johnson said: “I am excited to once again work alongside Francesca when she joins our growing London team,” “She will bring notable expertise across corporate transactions, having advised on some of the most critical European M&A and private equity deals of the last few years.” A Kirkland spokesperson said: “Kirkland thanks Francesca for her contribution to the firm and wishes her well in the future”