Matthew Dean and Claire McDaid will be joining Willkie Farr & Gallagher in London, the firm announced on July 14.  In addition, Scott A. Arenare recently joined Willkie as of counsel in the firm’s Asset Management Group in New York.  For insight from Willkie attorneys, see “SEC No-Action Letter Suggests That There May Be Circumstances in which Recipients of Transaction-Based Compensation Do Not Have to Register as Brokers,” Hedge Fund Law Report, Vol. 7, No. 7 (Feb. 21, 2014); “Investment Research and Insider Trading on ‘Outside Information’,” Hedge Fund Law Report, Vol. 4, No. 29 (Aug. 25, 2011).