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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
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
‘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
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
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
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
‘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
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
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
‘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
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
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
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...
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
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
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
Luxury lawyers share their favourite reads
In our annual reach-out, luxury advisory board members and partners recommend some of their most recent reads
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
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
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