Stephen Mostyn-Williams has been hired as head of the international banking and finance practice at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, the US law firm, after a year-long consultancy contract with Landwell.

Mostyn-Williams joins Cadwalader's office in London on March 25. He has spent the past year working for Landwell, the UK correspondent law firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers, but said he was keen to get back into practice so he could have a more hands-on role, working more closely with clients again.