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DWF follows up on nine-partner raid on Hall & Wilcox by securing 53 additional team members

Specialist London market insurance litigation group moving across to UK-based firm swells following talks with team members

4 Feb 2025

US private equity firm AE Industrial hires McDermott partner as first GC

Matthew Friendly leaves McDermott after 11 years, taking up his first in-house role

30 Jan 2025

AI-related filings drive increase in US securities class action lawsuits in 2024

Plaintiffs filed 225 lawsuits in total last year, up from 215 in 2023, Cornerstone and Stanford Law School study finds

30 Jan 2025

Spotify to seek new legal head after GC announces plan to step down

Eve Konstan will leave the streaming platform this week after almost five years

29 Jan 2025

Disney+ hires former Netflix lawyer as EMEA legal and business affairs VP

Deepti Burton spent six years at rival Netflix as EMEA head of business and legal affairs

24 Jan 2025

MLB team Baltimore Orioles hires CLO from Washington Capitals-owner

Former WilmerHale and Venable lawyer Kamaal Jones joins from Monumental Sports & Entertainment

23 Jan 2025

American Public Transport Association hires GC from PBGC

Taria Barron replaces Linda Ford, who departed the organisation in August

16 Jan 2025

Roomba-maker iRobot replaces GC for the second time in 12 months

Kevin Lanouette will succeed Tonya Drake, who was promoted to GC last January

14 Jan 2025

Direct Line hires GC from Close Brothers amid Aviva merger plans

Angela Yotov is due to join the insurance giant in February, replacing Humphrey Tomlinson

10 Jan 2025

In-house counsel fret about growing cyber and AI disputes risk, study finds

Baker McKenzie’s annual disputes survey shows global companies are also concerned about employment disputes

7 Jan 2025

UK’s Independent Football Regulator appoints first legal head

David Riley joins from the CMA as shadow regulator waits for Football Governance Bill to pass into law

7 Jan 2025

Gibson Dunn names new London co-managing partners

Robert Carr and Osma Hudda replace Ali Nikpay and Penny Madden KC

7 Jan 2025

Kinstellar launches in Austria with Wolf Theiss partner hire

Experienced M&A lawyer Horst Ebhardt will lead the new Vienna office

6 Jan 2025

Norton Rose Fulbright makes double hire from Locke Lord and Dechert in London

Kirsty Harrower and Jamal Tuhin join as partners in the real estate and private equity teams, respectively

6 Jan 2025

‘Trump Bump’ may boost US M&A activity next year, A&O Shearman report says

UK-listed companies are increasingly being targeted by US acquirers, according to Magic Circle firm

19 Dec 2024

DWF hires Hogan Lovells’ Warsaw office head and her nine-strong team

Move follows transatlantic firm’s announcement in September that it was shuttering its Warsaw office

17 Dec 2024

Constellation hires Jenner & Block energy practice co-head as next GC

Clean energy specialist also promotes current GC to chief legal and policy officer

16 Dec 2024

Vogue publisher Condé Nast lines up SoundCloud legal head as next GC

Antonious Porch will join in February, filling the seat left vacant by William Bowes’ departure

13 Dec 2024

Most CEE companies already using AI systems, CMS study shows

Companies in the region say they are ramping up AI training amid new EU AI regulations

11 Dec 2024

Lockheed Martin names next GC as veteran legal head retires

Kevin O’Connor will replace Maryanne Lavan, who is departing after nearly 35 years with the company

8 Dec 2024