Editor and journalist at The Global Legal Post

All Articles

HSF Kramer builds in Milan with hire of senior banking partner from BonelliErede

Emanuela Da Rin joins with four-strong team as BonelliErede announces hire of partner trio from rival Gatti Pavesi

10 Oct 2025

Frost Brown Todd merges with New Jersey’s Gibbons in Northeast push

Tie-up brings FBT six new offices across Northeastern US, creates firm with 800 lawyers and $450m in revenue

9 Oct 2025

Trio of firms guide Qualtrics’ $6.75bn healthcare tech firm acquisition

Goodwin Procter and Simpson Thacher counsel Silver Lake-backed Qualtrics as Latham & Watkins acts for target Press Ganey Forsta

8 Oct 2025

Weil adds six PE lawyers in Germany from Latham & Watkins

Partners Sebastian Pauls and Susanne Decker join with four team members as Weil moves to build pan-European PE powerhouse

7 Oct 2025

Pinsents boosts City corporate bench with Ashurst, HSF Kramer partners

New arrivals to head Pinsents’ equity capital markets practice and US securities practice

6 Oct 2025

Latham tops global M&A rankings after strongest first nine months for dealmaking since 2021

Los Angeles-founded giant ahead of Wachtell and Skadden in second and third spot respectively

6 Oct 2025

Morgan Lewis continues London hiring spree with Jenner & Block partner

Litigation specialist Christian Tuddenham is the sixth partner to join the US firm in London in the past year

3 Oct 2025

Haynes Boone leads on landmark US-UK listing amid AI boom

Linklaters and Vinson & Elkins also score roles advising underwriters as energy REIT Fermi lists on the Nasdaq and the London Stock Exchange

3 Oct 2025

‘A lawyer of exceptional vision’: Clifford Chance mourns death of former managing partner

Eminent finance lawyer Michael Bray led Clifford Chance from 2000-2002, later joining Grimaldi

2 Oct 2025

Greenberg Traurig adds Latham partner duo for Abu Dhabi debut

Firm opens 50th global office with financing and restructuring partner Christian Adams and M&A partner Chris Lester

1 Oct 2025

Europe’s Schoenherr launches London outpost

Liaison office intended to support firm’s role as a bridge for cross-border business with CEE

1 Oct 2025

Brown Rudnick litigation co-chairs launch New York boutique

Michael Bowe and Lauren Tabaksblat launch firm focused on impact litigation with team of 13

30 Sep 2025

Wachtell, Kirkland lead on EA’s record $55bn deal to go private

Six law firms called in for video game maker’s acquisition by consortium that includes Silver Lake and Saudi Arabia’s PIF, the largest take-private investment in history

29 Sep 2025

Trio of firms called in for Fortegra’s $1.65bn sale to South Korean insurer DB Insurance

Ropes & Gray and Sidley Austin advise Fortegra as Latham & Watkins guides DB Insurance

26 Sep 2025

Japan’s Mori Hamada debuts in London

Launch means all of Japan’s Big Four now have a presence in UK capital

26 Sep 2025

Skadden, Paul Weiss lead on Citigroup’s $2.3bn sale of Banamex stake to Mexican billionaire

Mexican law roles handed to White & Case, Creel García-Cuéllar and Robles Miaja

25 Sep 2025

Kennedys continues Americas growth streak with Brazilian alliance

Tie up with insurance-focused RPZ Advogados brings five partners and 24 lawyers

25 Sep 2025

Hogan Lovells adds two-partner trade team in Brussels from Steptoe

Steptoe’s EU trade lead Renato Antonini joins alongside Eva Monard and Byron Maniatis

24 Sep 2025

Orrick to shutter Geneva office by year end

Decision to close arbitration-focused outpost after 10 years follows ‘routine review’

24 Sep 2025

DWF bolsters UK major injury and casualty group with 28-strong Kennedys team

Arrival of four partners and their team follows DWF’s hire in May of a 13-strong marine insurance team from Kennedys

23 Sep 2025