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CMS appoints CEE corporate head as Romania managing partner

Horea Popescu to take over from Gabriel Sidere as head of Bucharest office in November

28 Oct 2020

HFW hires Colin Biggers & Paisley co-senior partner in Sydney

Antony Riordan leads five-strong construction disputes team joining London-headquartered firm

27 Oct 2020

Cahill hires third London leveraged finance partner from Allen & Overy

Newly made-up partner Joydeep Choudhuri jumps ship to join former colleagues at high-yield specialist

26 Oct 2020

Linklaters sets out race action plan to increase black diversity across firm

Magic Circle UK Firm pledges to increase number of black partners globally five fold by 2027

22 Oct 2020

Clyde & Co hires four-lawyer arbitration team from Foley Hoag in Paris

Hery Ranjeva and Ivan Urzhumov join as partners with focus on francophone Africa and Eastern Europe

21 Oct 2020

Burford Capital launches on New York Stock Exchange

Litigation funder says dual listing will deepen investor pool and raise profile in the US

20 Oct 2020

Historic Simpson & Marwick brand revived after Clyde & Co sheds Scottish property arm

Amicable de-merger sees longstanding name return to Scotland five years after it was sacrificed in merger

19 Oct 2020

ICCA Edinburgh congress is postponed for a second time due to Covid-19

Flagship arbitration conference rescheduled to later in 2021 as Scotland manages second wave of coronavirus

16 Oct 2020

Squire Patton Boggs boosts arbitration practice with senior hires in Paris and Brussels

US law firm adds two partners in Paris from DWF, while a consultant joins as a partner in Brussels from Wilmer Hale

14 Oct 2020

White & Case teams up with University of London to launch arbitration survey

Fifth study seeks to understand how Covid-19 pandemic is impacting sector

14 Oct 2020

Seventeen lawyers make history as Ireland's first solicitors to become Senior Counsel

Top Irish firms are represented as the SC rank is opened up to the solicitors' branch of the profession

13 Oct 2020

Quinn Emanuel claims France first as it hires leading state prosecutor

Paris-based financial prosecutor Eric Russo makes ground-breaking switch to private practice

12 Oct 2020

Noerr secures four-partner German corporate team from Latham

Former Shearman partners move again; DWF also secures team, from DLA Piper

9 Oct 2020

Brown Rudnick's London head of arbitration joins Beirut's Alem & Associates

Nicholas Tse to set up Abu Dhabi branch for new firm with team of two associates

6 Oct 2020

DAC Beachcroft builds in Belfast with five-partner hire from BLM

Insurance firm nearly doubles office partner count as it also secures a London fraud specialist

6 Oct 2020

Seasoned Linklaters duo set up international finance boutique

Practice to focus on emerging markets and commodity trade finance

5 Oct 2020

Linklaters mourns loss of 'true European' and former regional head Blumberg

Allen & Overy senior partner Wim Dejonghe among array of senior figures paying tribute to Belgian dealmaker

5 Oct 2020

Baltic market shake-up continues with tripartite merger to create 100-lawyer practice

Lithuania's WALLESS joins forces with firms in Estonia and Latvia to create a pan-Baltic practice

2 Oct 2020

Kennedys snaps up insurance boutique to launch in Tel Aviv

UK insurance specialist takes on four-partner practice to offer local law advice

1 Oct 2020

Madrid employment team leaves DWF to set up five-partner boutique

Split with listed UK firm comes less than a year after its acquisition of Spain independent RCD

30 Sep 2020