New base in Brazil’s financial centre will provide US legal advice on cross-border transactions | 7mos

US firm closed its Shanghai office in March | 7mos

UK firm continues US expansion after growth push that began with 2017 merger | 7mos

Combination to create top 70 US firm with revenue of $740m and more than 1,300 lawyers | 7mos

Taylor Wessing’s ECVC head joins alongside partners from White & Case and Goodwin Procter | 7mos

Global giant wants at least 20% of UK trainees to come from lower socio-economic backgrounds | 7mos

Reed Smith also called in for sale of OCI’s methanol business alongside McCarthy Tétrault and Loyens & Loeff | 7mos

Nicola Noël joins US firm as a partner from Canadian pension investor PSP Investments | 7mos

Troutman Pepper Locke to have 1,600 lawyers across 33 US and two European offices | 7mos

Consulting arm will also close as UK giant takes ‘difficult but necessary’ step to ‘reshape’ business | 7mos

Debevoise, Cravath and Paul Weiss called in for deal to boost Verizon’s US fibre network | 7mos

Move leaves firm with China bases in Shanghai, Hong Kong | 7mos

Christopher DeCresce was previously vice chair of Paul Hastings’ securities and capital markets practice | 7mos

Corporate partner Ed Barnett takes over leadership of 500-lawyer office | 7mos

Final Magic Circle firm to bump up salaries from £125k amid ongoing salary war | 7mos

Former Quinn Emanuel UK competition co-head joins transatlantic firm alongside Freshfields’ Japan head of disputes | 7mos

Movers include MoFo’s Singapore managing partner Shirin Tang | 7mos

Partners Michael Zollner and Carl Renner join having co-headed Pinsents’ flexi-lawyering arm Vario in Germany | 7mos

Partner Will Summers joins alongside newly-minted of counsel Michael Skouras | 7mos

Anne-Sophie Noury’s arrival follows team exits earlier this year from White & Case to Jones Day and Hogan Lovells | 7mos