In what appears to be an increasingly common trend, another lawyer from an investment bank has traded life in-house for private practice. On this occasion its Sushma Jobanputra leaving a position as head of Barclays Capital's structured finance team to take up partnership with Jones Day in Singapore.

Jobanputra, who advises lenders, borrowers and financial advisers on a variety of financing transactions, including syndicated lending, acquisition finance, leveraged finance and structured finance, will join the firm's banking & finance practice. Prior to her role with Barclays, Jobanputra worked with Linklaters in London.

Jobanputra's move makes her, by our count, the ninth lawyer to defect from in-house roles to private practice this year. Seven of these nine have come from either investment or consumer banks.

 
Trading up?  Moves from in-house to private practice this year