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Latham & Watkins hires top M&A partner from Wachtell in New York
Zach Podolsky’s departure from Wachtell marks a rare lateral move away from elite US firm
Vinson & Elkins makes trio of US partner hires from Kirkland & Ellis and Baker Botts
New recruits include funds partners Samuel Francis and Reed Schuster and finance lawyer Caitlin Lawrence
HSF Kramer hires partner from Ashurst to head up real estate disputes team
Experienced commercial real estate lawyer Alison Hardy joins newly merged firm in London
AI platform Genesys to promote GC to CLO role as veteran legal chief steps down
Allen Chiu will replace Jim René, who has been CLO since Genesys was sold by Alcatel-Lucent in 2012
LexisNexis and AI platform Harvey strike legaltech partnership deal
Strategic alliance will allow Harvey users to tap into LexisNexis’s AI-assisted legal content
Group of four former US federal enforcers set up antitrust plaintiff boutique
Simonsen Sussman co-founded by three ex-FTC lawyers and DOJ attorney
Akin makes second double partner hire in Chicago from Mayer Brown
Arrival of Joshua La Vigne and Jessica Pan follows hire of Wendy Dobson Gallegos and Jason Wagenmaker last month
Greenberg Traurig boosts employment coverage with quintet of hires in Milan and London
Incoming lawyers include shareholders Giuseppe Bulgarini d’Elci and Virginia Allen
McDemott Will & Emery plans Mayfair office move amid Schulte merger talks
Relocation is slated for 2028 and comes just two years after the US firm moved to its current London home at 22 Bishopsgate
Goodwin to exit Frankfurt and shutter German real estate business
Move follows Cleary Gottlieb’s announcement in May that it will exit Frankfurt this year
Robot chef-maker Circus Group hires GC from German defence tech company Helsing
Former Microsoft lawyer Sasha Borovik joins ahead of defence industry expansion
Harnessing Gen AI in law: six key takeaways
Research report by Global Legal Post in association with LexisNexis sheds light on how European firms expect Gen AI to reshape the legal profession
Bindmans launches Social Justice Fund aimed at improving access to justice
UK firm will donate 10% of client fees to fund that will split proceeds with the Access to Justice Foundation and Just4Kids Law
Online retailer Ocado rehires Britvic GC as next legal head
Ocado’s former deputy GC Mollie Stoker to return, taking on GC role from Neill Abrams, who is retiring
Starbucks on hunt for new legal chief as CLO set to depart ‘in the coming months’
Brad Lerman set to leave the company after just over two years, according to a regulatory filing
Music streaming giant Spotify names interim GC as permanent legal head
Kevan Choset had been standing in as GC after Eve Konstan stepped down in January
CM Murray hires employment disputes partner from Edwin Coe in London
Emma Sangeelee adds discrimination and whistleblowing expertise, notably in the private equity and professional services sectors
US nuclear power innovator Terrestrial Energy hires GC ahead of public listing
Brian Romanzo joins from franchising consultancy REP’M Group
Pérez-Llorca furthers LatAm ambitions with landmark Colombia merger
Tie-up with 120-lawyer Gómez-Pinzón marks first merger between two leading firms in the Iberian Peninsula and Colombia
UK GCs say they will keep more work in-house as cost pressures bite – study
GenAI adoption also likely to prompt a greater shift to value-based billing, according to Thomson Reuters report