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Legora raises $550m at $8.8bn valuation in latest funding round
Swedish legal AI startup’s valuation rockets by more than $3bn in just seven months as it says US is now its largest market by revenue
Blank Rome adds two-partner commodities, finance team in New York from Hogan Lovells Cadwalader
Partners Christopher Doyle and Marvin Goldstein join with two senior counsels in hire Blank Rome said boosted its offering in energy work
Wachtell, Covington, Davis Polk in for Salesforce’s $5.7bn Braze acquisition
Wachtell and Covington & Burling guide Salesforce with Davis Polk across the table for Braze in deal that deepens software giant’s AI push
National US firm Wood Smith Henning & Berman inks private equity deal
Mid-market PE firm Charlesbank Capital Partners invests in insurance defence specialist at $700m valuation according to the Financial Times
Ashurst Perkins Coie debuts in Houston with Bracewell duo
Transatlantic firm marks first office launch since its creation in June, targeting energy and infrastructure work
Gibson Dunn taps Freshfields for arbitration heavyweight in Singapore
Nicholas Lingard joins as practice co-chair, marking Gibson Dunn’s third partner hire from Freshfields in Singapore in less than a year
UK sports boutique becomes latest law firm to take PE investment
Centrefield, which counts Manchester United and Manchester City among its clients, said it would use the investment from Palatine to fund international expansion
Womble adds five-lawyer financial litigation team in Boston, New York from K&L Gates
Three partners move over in Boston, K&L Gates’ second team exit in the city this year after cutting non-lawyer jobs across the firm
Freshfields partners consider spinning out legaltech unit worth ‘billions’
Senior partners discussed carving out Freshfields Lab and bringing in external investors in email exchange leaked to the Financial Times
Ropes, Weil, Paul Weiss guide Galderma’s $1.5bn ZO Skin Health acquisition
Ropes acts for Swiss skincare conglomerate in deal that will increase its exposure to US market, with Weil and Paul Weiss representing ZO and its owner Blackstone
Clifford Chance to end formal alliance with Singapore’s Cavenagh Law after 14 years
UK firm ends relationship with boutique that enabled it to provide local litigation advice in city-state
HSF Kramer launches Italy real estate practice with K&L Gates team hire
Firm hailed arrival of six-lawyer team as a ‘milestone’ in creation of a full-service model in Milan
Weil hits Freshfields for London PE dealmaker
Rebecca Ward joins as US firm restocks City bench following raft of senior departures
Kirkland to halt reporting financial results to media
World's highest-grossing law firm will no longer voluntarily provide annual revenue and profit figures to the legal media
Davis Polk adds Skadden’s global media deals chief in Los Angeles
Glen Mastroberte reunites with former Skadden partner Jason Russell, who launched Davis Polk's Los Angeles office in May
Skadden, A&O Shearman, Davis Polk lead on $8.9bn Boots acquisition
Davis Polk guides Boots in deal that will see the retailer acquired by the Canadian branch of the Weston family, with Skadden and A&O Shearman across the table
Brown Rudnick launches national security practice with six-lawyer group
White collar defence partner Patrick Gilman joins at group's helm having co-led national security practice at Greenberg Traurig
Kirkland tops global M&A rankings after strongest first nine months for dealmaking since 2021
Chicago-founded giant comfortably ahead of Sullivan & Cromwell and Latham & Watkins in second and third spot respectively
Mori Hamada pushes international growth with two new offices in Texas
Japanese Big Four firm to open in Dallas and Houston next year, giving it five US offices
Greenberg Traurig secures Ashurst Perkins Coie’s construction chief in London
Ben Patton joins as head of GT'’s London construction practice, continuing string of real estate partner lateral hires