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Pinsent Masons set to cut roles following leadership change
Positions in UK firm’s alternative legal services arm and business ops subject to consultation amid wider overhaul of operations
Paul Weiss to debut in Silicon Valley with Sullivan & Cromwell dealmakers
Rainmaker Nader Mousavi, who co-led Sullivan & Cromwell’s AI, IP and technology groups, joins with partner Mark Schenkel
Stephenson Harwood and Taylor Wessing call off merger talks
UK and European firms characterise decision not to go ahead with proposed tie-up as mutual in joint statement
Greenberg Traurig recruits Osborne Clarke energy and infrastructure finance leader in London
Dominic O’Brien marks third senior hire in as many months into US firm’s London energy and natural resources practice
Akin adds London energy and infrastructure partner from Freshfields
James Chapman continues run of Freshfields partner exits this year in UK and Europe as firm focuses on US growth
Nee takes 40-lawyer Weil private equity, debt finance team to Kirkland
Ramona Nee, who was positioned to be Weil’s next leader, joins alongside five further partners ahead of firm’s winding down
Cravath promotes 11 to partner in largest round for six years
Five make the grade in Cravath’s corporate department and six move up in the litigation practice
Addleshaw Goddard pushes Europe growth with 20-strong Taylor Wessing hire
Four-partner team spanning corporate and M&A, private equity, restructuring and insolvency joins in Munich
Anderson Mori plans US debut with two Texas offices
Firm plans launches in Dallas and Houston next spring, as top Japanese law firms move to capitalise on the influx of Japanese investment into the US
Gibson Dunn set to hire up to 120 Weil funds lawyers across US, UK
Practice co-heads among those set to join top 10 US firm in one of legal profession’s largest-ever lateral moves