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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
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
Former UK prime minister David Cameron in talks to join DLA Piper
Ex-PM in ‘discussions’ for advisory role relating to geopolitical risk
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
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
Cleary to shutter Frankfurt office after 34 years
Closure follows departure of senior partners from shrinking office in recent years
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
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
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
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
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
Hogan Lovells boosts London NQ pay to £140k
Pay bump means Hogan Lovells sits behind only international Magic Circle among UK law firms
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
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
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
Akin hits Mayer Brown for first Chicago partners
Hires comes as Akin plans Chicago office launch, according to sources with knowledge of the matter
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
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
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
Paul Weiss hits A&O Shearman for London restructuring, infrastructure partners
US firm continues rapid London buildout with Tom Levine and Nick Charlwood