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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
Wilson Sonsini, Davis Polk guide Marvell’s $115bn Lumentum deal
Wilson Sonsini guides Marvell in one of the tech industry’s largest deals, as Davis Polk acts for optical components maker Lumentum
Latham adds Baker Botts projects chief in five-partner hire across Houston, DC
Global firm hires from Orrick and Sidley Austin alongside Baker Botts as it homes in on energy and infrastructure work
Simmons & Simmons adds senior Linklaters real estate partner and team in Brussels
Yves Moreau, Linklaters’ former global head of real estate, joins with four associates
Simpson Thacher raids White & Case and Kirkland for four Chicago partners
Partners practising across M&A, restructuring and executive compensation bring Simpson Thacher’s Chicago partner count to 12 two months after office launch
Weil regulatory partner duo decamp to Skadden in New York and DC
Andrew Dean and Christopher Mulligan latest partners to jump ship as Weil explores options for its future amid an exodus of senior talent
Wilson Sonsini, Freshfields land key roles in Anthropic IPO
Wilson Sonsini acts for Anthropic as Freshfields guides underwriters, with Orrick, Cleary and Cravath also involved
Honigman debuts in Boston with Womble Bond patent trio
Detroit-founded firm hones in on life sciences work as it opens ninth US office
Weil’s incoming leader pulls out of role amid partner departures
Ramona Nee was due to become Weil’s executive partner in January but has told the firm she will not take the role and has held talks with other firms, according to the Financial Times
Four London lawyers make the grade in Latham partner promotions round
Private equity and M&A duo made up alongside tax and banking lawyers as part of 36-strong global cohort
Raft of firms guide Qiagen’s $10.8bn take-private acquisition by Sweden’s EQT
De Brauw, Linklaters and Davis Polk guide Dutch molecular testing firm as Milbank takes the lead for Sweden’s EQT and Clifford Chance and Freshfields counsel co-investors