Anne Gallagher

Anne is the executive director of the Luxury Law Alliance and a member of the editorial team at The Global Legal Post, where she focuses on luxury law news stories

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Cardozo Law’s FAME programme honours Luxury Law Summit NY chair Barbara Kolsun

Kolsun marks 10 years as Cardozo School of Law’s FAME Center director, amid a lifetime of luxury law firsts

15 May 2026

Barnes & Thornburg adds entertainment trio from Nixon Peabody

Christina Chang and Carron Joan Mitchell join Barnes in Los Angeles and Farrah Usmani joins its Nashville location

12 May 2026

‘Doyen of music business lawyers’ Paddy Grafton Green has died, aged 83

Simkins’ former senior partner represented A-list entertainers including the Rolling Stones, Tina Turner and David Bowie

15 Apr 2026

HSF Kramer and Norton Rose advise on £1.4bn sale of Ivy Collection to Diafa

The transaction is one of the largest ever in the UK restaurant business and includes The Ivy Collection, Sexy Fish, Scott’s, Harry’s Bar and Annabel’s

14 Apr 2026

Gibson Dunn, Bär & Karrer guide Marriott and Lefay Resorts in luxury wellness joint venture

As the first brand dedicated exclusively to luxury wellness in Marriott’s line-up, Lefay provides a strategic lever in the growing holistic travel sector

7 Apr 2026

Luxury brands must respond to maturing ESG frameworks, new policy survey says

Baker McKenzie and Positive Luxury study says brands continue to face compliance challenges across jurisdictions with varying requirements

17 Mar 2026

‘Innovating responsibly means being true to the values of your brand and your consumer’: Coty’s Melanie Nardo

Coty’s GC for commercial and licensing discusses the growing beauty and wellness industry, compliance gaps, responsible innovation and beauty bag must-haves

20 Feb 2026

Fried Frank and Hogan Lovells advise on Next’s acquisition of Russell & Bromley

Next buys luxury shoe brand out of administration for £3.8m, adding to portfolio that includes FatFace and Made.com

26 Jan 2026

Saks Global taps Willkie and Haynes Boone in US bankruptcy filing

Just a year after Saks’s $2.7bn acquisition of Neiman Marcus, the filing reflects broader challenges for traditional brick-and-mortar luxury retail

15 Jan 2026

‘In luxury, we are all tied together by an invisible golden string’: Huda Beauty’s Mershia Govender

Luxury beauty executive discusses her path to law, her global role, ‘servant leadership’ and the ties that bind luxury colleagues together

22 Dec 2025

Trio of Swiss firms advise on L’Oréal’s increased stake in Galderma

Switzerland’s Bär & Karrer, Niederer Kraft Frey and Homburger advised with Ropes & Gray providing antitrust counsel

9 Dec 2025

Withers adds art lawyer and historian to newly formed US art and advisory team

Frank Lord joins as senior counsel, alongside contemporary art expert Sarina Taylor, who joins as an associate

14 Nov 2025

IBA Toronto 2025: Trump presents ‘intolerable risk’ to US democracy

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bob Woodward, who helped uncover the Watergate scandal, accuses President Trump of "shredding the rule of law" in far-ranging discussion at the IBA's annual conferenc...

5 Nov 2025

Morrison Cohen launches health and wellness practice with luxury focus

Under the leadership of three co-chairs, the firm will capitalise on growing demand in the health, science and luxury sectors

26 Oct 2025

Q&A luxury and the law: what’s keeping brands on watch

From regulatory crackdowns to real estate revivals, Loeb & Loeb partner Michael Barry discusses the forces reshaping the luxury landscape

20 Oct 2025

Gianni & Origoni adds five-lawyer finance boutique in London and Milan

Tie up with iLS sees London-based Norman Pepe join as an equity partner

20 Oct 2025

Luxury lawyers share their favourite reads

In our annual reach-out, luxury advisory board members and partners recommend some of their most recent reads

7 Oct 2025

Greenberg Traurig adds hospitality group co-chair from Pinsent Masons

Louisa Lynch joins Elias Hayek to co-chair GT’s Middle East and European hospitality group from Dubai

9 Sep 2025

DWF and DLA Piper UK called in for SMG Capital’s $50m acquisition of Fabergé

Tech entrepreneur Sergei Mosunov’s SMG Capital plans to increase Fabergé’s international presence and invest in its African mining operations

1 Sep 2025

Sullivan & Cromwell, Jones Day among firms advising on $4.4bn Gildan-Hanes mega-merger

The deal creates one of the world’s largest basic apparel companies

21 Aug 2025