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Kirkland adds 13-partner litigation team from King & Spalding

Chicago giant continues litigation hiring spree as mass torts and product liability team joins across US

27 May 2025

Four Paul Weiss litigation partners leave to form new firm

Prominent Democratic lawyer Karen Dunn among quartet of partners to leave two months after firm cut deal with Trump’s White House

27 May 2025

Former UK prime minister David Cameron in talks to join DLA Piper

Ex-PM in ‘discussions’ for advisory role relating to geopolitical risk

23 May 2025

HSF teams up with Kramer ahead of merger for London reinsurance IPO

Willkie Farr and Latham also called in for Third Point Investors’ proposed all-share combination with Malibu Life Reinsurance and re-IPO

23 May 2025

Ashurst hives off seven-partner Canberra office to Australian firm

Team’s exit for Thomson Geer result of Ashurst scaling back work for Australian government

22 May 2025

Cleary to shutter Frankfurt office after 34 years

Closure follows departure of senior partners from shrinking office in recent years

22 May 2025

Bird & Bird to open office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Firm opens 34th global office in kingdom’s hot legal market as it targets €1bn in revenue

21 May 2025

Ex-A&O leaders launch consultancy for PE investment in law

Wim Dejonghe and David Morley launch eponymous firm following record PE investment in UK legal sector last year

21 May 2025

PE-backed Lawfront scoops up sixth regional UK firm

Legal services group eyes £150m turnover as it marks largest acquisition to date with South West law firm Trethowans

20 May 2025

Paul Hastings adds two more White & Case partners in energy and infrastructure push

Firm has hired seven partners into the practice across Abu Dhabi, Paris and London since 1 April, six of them from White & Case

19 May 2025

HSF names new executive partner for UK, EMEA ahead of Kramer merger

Jeremy Walden to take the helm of Anglo-Australian firm’s 270-partner UK and EMEA network on 1 June

15 May 2025

Hogan Lovells boosts London NQ pay to £140k

Pay bump means Hogan Lovells sits behind only international Magic Circle among UK law firms

15 May 2025

Linklaters, Paul Weiss and Sidley called in for Evri’s DHL merger to forge UK delivery giant

Linklaters counsels longtime client DHL as Paul Weiss and Sidley act for Evri

14 May 2025

BCLP adds London partners from A&O Shearman, Taylor Wessing

Legacy Shearman & Sterling’s London tax head Simon Letherman joins as corporate finance specialist Lerika Le Grange moves over from Taylor Wessing

14 May 2025

Latham, Willkie Farr guide Coinbase’s $2.9bn Deribit acquisition

Latham advises Coinbase with Willkie across the table in crypto industry’s biggest deal to date

13 May 2025

Akin hits Mayer Brown for first Chicago partners

Hires comes as Akin plans Chicago office launch, according to sources with knowledge of the matter

13 May 2025

Sidley unveils triple partner raid on Weil in London private funds push

Weil’s global private funds co-head, Ed Gander, to be joined by Stephen Fox and Peter Boulle in coming weeks

12 May 2025

White & Case, Milbank, Willkie Farr guide NRG Energy’s $12bn LS Power deal

White & Case counsels NRG Energy in deal to acquire fleet of natural gas-fired power plants from LS Power, repped by Willkie Farr and Milbank

12 May 2025

Fladgate strikes upbeat note at start of UK financial reporting season with 17% revenue jump

Top 100 UK firm grows revenue to £88m as PEP jumps 20% to exceed £1m

12 May 2025

Paul Weiss hits A&O Shearman for London restructuring, infrastructure partners

US firm continues rapid London buildout with Tom Levine and Nick Charlwood

9 May 2025