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Legal AI start-up Luminance, backed by Slaughter and May, raises $75m

Funding round marks one of largest capital raises by pure-play legal AI company in UK and Europe

19 Feb 2025

Simpson Thacher taps Willkie Farr for four-partner registered funds team

Firm cites growing client focus on retail market products as partners join across New York and DC

19 Feb 2025

Addleshaw Goddard absorbs Linklaters’ Warsaw office

Firm hails addition of 80-lawyer office as ‘milestone’ in international expansion drive

18 Feb 2025

King & Spalding hits Baker McKenzie for Brussels trade duo

Firm restocks Brussels trade bench with partner Arnoud Willems and newly-minted partner Bregt Natens following exits last November

18 Feb 2025

Cleary to shut Beijing arm, joining US law firm exodus from mainland China

New York firm to focus China coverage in Hong Kong

17 Feb 2025

Linklaters hires CMA litigation chief in London

Jessica Radke latest in string of senior disputes hires for Magic Circle firm in UK and US

17 Feb 2025

A&O Shearman IP teams depart for White & Case and Clifford Chance in London and Paris

Former A&O IP head David Stone joins White & Case in London with two more lawyers as IP partner David Por moves to CC in Paris with a two-lawyer team

14 Feb 2025

Cadwalader hits Reed Smith, Ashurst for London fund finance trio

US firm restocks London finance bench following team exit for King & Spalding last year

14 Feb 2025

Norton Rose Fulbright ups NQ pay in London to £135k

Rise of 12.5% brings firm in line with Hogan Lovells, Herbert Smith Freehills

13 Feb 2025

King & Spalding builds out global energy practice with double partner raid on Akin in London

Dan Giemajner and Matt Hardwick continue run of UK hires for US firm

13 Feb 2025

Hill Dickinson restricts access to Gen AI tools following ‘significant increase in usage’

UK firm detected more than 32,000 hits to ChatGPT in one-week period

12 Feb 2025

Haynes Boone picks up four-partner Memery Crystal capital markets team amid ongoing exits

London boutique continues to splinter as parent company RBG Holdings prepares to enter administration

12 Feb 2025

Pinsent Masons set to cut roles in Germany

Cuts to affect 14 equity partners and all three German offices, according to reports

11 Feb 2025

White & Case calls time on exclusive Indonesia association

End of partnership with Witara Cakra Advocates means US firm will no longer have an on-the-ground presence in Indonesia

11 Feb 2025

Fladgate picks up 25-strong Memery Crystal team as exits continue

Move continues break up of London boutique as parent company RBG Holdings prepares to enter administration

10 Feb 2025

White & Case adds four-partner team in New York from Cadwalader

Partners bring broad M&A and shareholder engagement practices

7 Feb 2025

Willkie Farr continues Germany growth push with Quinn Emanuel duo

US firm also tapped Latham for 11-lawyer restructuring team in Germany last summer

7 Feb 2025

BCLP to enter Saudi Arabia’s hot legal market with two offices

Transatlantic firm hires two partners from local boutique to open bases in Riyadh and Al-Khobar

6 Feb 2025

Slaughter and May names successor to first managing partner Finkler

Slaughters lifer David Johnson to take over from Deborah Finkler in August

6 Feb 2025

Dinsmore continues Florida growth with local tie-up

Merger with 10-lawyer Shankman Leone follows three office launches since 2020 in the Sunshine State

31 Jan 2025