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Greenberg Traurig eyes Asia renewables boom as firm opens in Singapore

Singapore launch follows Riyadh opening last month; firm also mulls expansion in Dubai, Brazil

14 Apr 2023

Around the house: Lowe’s chooses new legal head, Daimler Truck’s US business promotes GC to CLO role

This week’s roundup of top in-house moves also includes appointments at Vallourec, KMD, Dextra Partners and Vision RNG

14 Apr 2023

Freshfields beats gender target for third year in a row in latest partner promotion round

Magic circle firm elevates 30 to partner – three more than in 2022 – with women accounting for 53% of promotions

13 Apr 2023

Starbucks hires veteran GC as new legal head after year-long search

Former Medtronic GC Brad Lerman comes out of retirement to take up role

13 Apr 2023

India’s Trilegal secures eight-strong M&A team from rival Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas

Team is led by Amit Khansaheb, who assembled group while at BMR Legal before moving to Shardul in 2017

12 Apr 2023

Clifford Chance hires US insurance partner from Mayer Brown in New York

Frank Monaco is the latest in a recent spate of recruits for the firm’s US insurance practice

12 Apr 2023

Top Spanish firm Cuatrecasas sees revenue grow 4.7% to hit new record

Firm’s revenue rises to €352.66m for the 2022 fiscal year as Latin American and Portuguese business grows

11 Apr 2023

Sullivan & Cromwell tops M&A rankings in Q1 as deal making tumbles to decade low

First quarter deal value is lowest since 2013 and slowest quarter since the start of the pandemic, according to Refinitiv

6 Apr 2023

Around the house: M&G replaces outgoing legal head, BD hands acting GC full-time gig

This week’s roundup of top in-house hires also includes appointments at the ACC, Applied Industrial Technologies, JumpCloud and The Real Brokerage

6 Apr 2023

Latham, Kirkland, Paul Weiss and Pillsbury advise on UFC and WWE mega-merger

UFC owner Endeavor agrees to merge with WWE in deal that would value combined sports giant at more than $21bn

4 Apr 2023

Paul Hastings hires litigation partner from Cahill to boost white collar coverage

Brad Bondi will co-chair the firm’s investigations and white collar defence practice in Washington

3 Apr 2023

Greenberg Traurig taps Willkie for new European restructuring co-chair in Milan

Bruno Cova will co-chair group alongside John Houghton in London and Claudia Hard in Berlin

3 Apr 2023

Kirkland, Latham and Pillsbury advise on $4.8bn Concentrix merger with Webhelp

Transatlantic deal will create a global leader in customer experience services

31 Mar 2023

Sidley Austin makes double partner hire from Weil to bolster London private equity practice

James MacArthur and Ed Freeman bring vast deal experience, notably in the energy and infrastructure sectors

31 Mar 2023

Linklaters meets gender diversity target for third consecutive year in latest promotion round

Magic circle firm elevates 41 to its partnership, with 17 women making the cut – just above its 40% goal

30 Mar 2023

Ashurst expands London disputes coverage with partner hire from Goldman Sachs

Banking litigation and investigations lawyer Philip Linton returns to private practice after 12 years at Goldman

30 Mar 2023

Around the house: Former WeWork CLO joins US fintech DailyPay, Levi Strauss replaces veteran CLO

This week’s roundup of top in-house hires also includes appointments at Smithfield Foods, James Fisher and Sons, The Bank of London and U-Haul

30 Mar 2023

‘Live sales are creating a bit of havoc’: Lipkus Law co-founder on the trends impacting the anti-counterfeiting world

Anti-counterfeiting guide editor Lorne Lipkus discusses the challenges practitioners face this year, as well as some of the market’s recent enforcement successes

27 Mar 2023

Around the house: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation replaces retiring CLO; former Diageo lawyer trades Johnnie Walker for Ribena

This week’s roundup of top in-house hires also includes appointments at Gong Cha, Capstan Therapeutics, Advanced Vapor Devices and Pérez-Llorca

23 Mar 2023

More UK in-house teams plan to cut legal spend than most global peers, study shows

Economic worries are higher among UK corporate legal departments, according to a Thomson Reuters survey

23 Mar 2023