Winston & Strawn has hired corporate finance attorney Andrei Yakovlev, who will split his time between the firm's London and Moscow offices. Yakovlev's practice will focus on international debt and equity capital markets, mergers and acquisitions and sovereign finance, with an emphasis on the emerging markets in central and eastern Europe, central Asia, the Middle East and Africa. He previously worked at Norton Rose, and has worked in London, New York and Moscow.