Simpson Thacher raids White & Case and Kirkland for four Chicago partners

Partners practising across M&A, restructuring and executive compensation bring Simpson Thacher’s Chicago partner count to 12 two months after office launch

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Weil regulatory partner duo decamp to Skadden in New York and DC

Andrew Dean and Christopher Mulligan latest partners to jump ship as Weil explores options for its future amid an exodus of senior talent

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NAV lending for family offices: a lender’s view of structure, collateral and cross-border friction

Alex Branton, chief investment officer of Nodem Capital, discusses why family offices and private market funds are looking to NAV loans to turn long-term private markets investments into liquidity without selling those assets

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Partner Content

Latham and Harvey agree partnership to develop AI tools for investment fund formation

Collaboration will combine firm’s investment funds practice with Harvey’s product team to build AI capabilities for fund arrangements

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Former Fiji Airways and Flybe CEO joins Clyde & Co

Double partner hire sees Dave Pflieger join the firm in the US while Tannie Kwong joins in Hong Kong from Cathay Pacific

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Clio acquires Canadian AI-powered regulatory horizon scanning platform Page

Clio says deal will help its users monitor developing government legislation and prepare for regulatory change

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McDermott Will & Schulte sees partner promotions fall by more than half in latest round

Firm promotes 36 to partnership, down from 74 a year ago

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US private insurance broker Lockton promotes deputy to CLO role

Sara Romine will succeed Trey Humphrey, who is stepping aside after 26 years

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Law Society of Singapore fills seven council seats following contested election

Drew & Napier chairman Jimmy Yim SC and Legis Point founder Samuel Chacko among successful candidates

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Wilson Sonsini, Freshfields land key roles in Anthropic IPO

Wilson Sonsini acts for Anthropic as Freshfields guides underwriters, with Orrick, Cleary and Cravath also involved

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IP and the enduring value of India’s luxury Ayurveda market

Remfry & Sagar’s Bisman Kaur discusses India’s luxury Ayurvedic traditions, IP ownership and how brands can create, protect and scale valuable assets

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NautaDutilh launches in-house legaltech development platform Bluefield

Lawyers and software engineers will team up on the initiative, which is led by new partner hire Elgar Weijtmans

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Hogan Lovells Cadwalader links up with Cambridge University for senior leadership programme

Initiative is aimed at developing the firm’s next generation of leaders

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Honigman debuts in Boston with Womble Bond patent trio

Detroit-founded firm hones in on life sciences work as it opens ninth US office

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Former Rouse managing director co-launches AI-powered trademark protection platform Patentir

Patentir’s AI tech is designed to help businesses with trademark guidance, prosecution and management

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Privilege, privacy and discoverability in agentic AI environments

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Legora raises $550m at $8.8bn valuation in latest funding round

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Raft of firms guide Qiagen’s $10.8bn take-private acquisition by Sweden’s EQT

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Economic pressures, US tariffs push Canadian businesses to make workforce changes – study

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Four London lawyers make the grade in Latham partner promotions round

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Weil’s incoming leader pulls out of role amid partner departures

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• Remfry & Sagar

IP and the enduring value of India’s luxury Ayurveda market

Remfry & Sagar’s Bisman Kaur discusses India’s luxury Ayurvedic traditions, IP ownership and how brands can create, protect and scale valuable assets

• 1d

• Alex Branton
• Nodem Capital

NAV lending for family offices: a lender’s view of structure, collateral and cross-border friction

Alex Branton, chief investment officer of Nodem Capital, discusses why family offices and private market funds are looking to NAV loans to turn long-term private markets investments into liquidity without selling those assets

• 1d

Partner Content

• Daniel Bilak
• Kinstellar

How the war in Ukraine has created a new field of legal practice

Daniel Bilak, managing partner of Kinstellar’s Kyiv office, considers the legal specialism emerging from Ukraine’s front line

• 5d

• Liam Colley
• Cornerstone Research

Economic experts and instructing lawyers before the CAT – the path ahead

As the Competition Appeal Tribunal intensifies its scrutiny of economic evidence, Cornerstone Research’s Liam Colley emphasises the importance of experts and instructing lawyers having a relationship that welcomes challenge and puts analytical rigour at the heart of the case

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Revisiting global contract templates in Brazil: what luxury brands should know

Stocche Forbes lawyers Flavia Câmara e Castro and Thiago Porto Ribeiro explain how international luxury brands can adjust global contract templates in Brazil to preserve commercial structures and ensure they work as intended locally

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Luxury brands brace for workforce shift as new UK employment regulations take hold

The UK’s Employment Rights Act is ushering in the most substantial change to employment law in a generation. For luxury retailers, proactive preparation will be key to compliance, write Pinsent Masons lawyers Kate Dodd and Alyce McNaughton

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Luxury collaborations: the contracts behind successful brand partnerships

Behind the apparent simplicity of luxury collaborations, Stocche Forbes lawyers Flavia Câmara e Castro and Thiago Porto Ribeiro explore the network of commercial decisions that need to be reflected in the contract

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‘That investigative instinct still drives a lot of what I do today’: Alibaba’s Matthew Bassiur

Luxury Law Awards winner talks about his investigative instinct, technology literacy, the importance of mastering the fundamentals and building a broad toolkit

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