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Geradin Partners recruits team for Finland debut

Third office launch this year for competition specialist

1 Oct 2024

Burns & Levinson announces closure

Boston stalwart to shutter following raids from larger rivals

30 Sep 2024

Jenner & Block names new co-managing partner

DC partner Ishan Bhabha to succeed Katya Jestin at the start of next year

27 Sep 2024

Clifford Chance adds top flight restructuring partner in Munich

Kolja von Bismarck reunites with two other ex-Sidley Austin restructuring partners that joined CC in Germany in June

26 Sep 2024

Chinese giant Yingke marks London launch

World’s largest law firm by headcount aims for 100 international offices by 2026

25 Sep 2024

Freshfields to scrap ‘Bruckhaus Deringer’ in rebrand

Refreshed brand to be rolled out from October

25 Sep 2024

DAC Beachcroft debuts in Hong Kong with new office and association

Top 50 UK firm bucks trend of law firms pulling out of the city

24 Sep 2024

Taft to combine with Sherman & Howard in latest large US merger

Tie-up to create firm with revenues of $810m and more than 1,000 lawyers

23 Sep 2024

Kirkland, Freshfields guide $1bn acquisition of stake in BP Pipelines TAP

Freshfields advises BP as Kirkland counsells Apollo-managed funds on acquisition

23 Sep 2024

Greenberg Traurig adds arbitration partner trio in London from Pinsent Masons

Pinsents' former international arbitration co-head Jason Hambury joins with Gurmukh Riyat and Clea Bigelow-Nuttall

20 Sep 2024

Squire Patton Boggs hires former Trump defence secretary

Mark Esper joins in Washington DC to advise on national security, domestic and foreign policy

20 Sep 2024

Weil private funds buildout continues with Goodwin partner hire

Karen Chao is the fourth private funds partner to join Weil since late 2023

19 Sep 2024

Herbert Smith Freehills appoints new Africa leadership

London-based partner Martin Kavanagh takes helm of 200-partner group

19 Sep 2024

Slaughters, Travers and Simpson Thacher guide L&G's £1.35bn Cala Homes sale

Slaughters advises longtime client Legal & General as Travers Smith and Simpson Thacher counsel buyers Sixth Street Capital and Patron Capital

18 Sep 2024

Mishcon de Reya recruits former NatWest boss

Alison Rose to advise on diversity and inclusion matters having left NatWest last year amid Farage 'debanking' scandal

17 Sep 2024

Eversheds Sutherland names new co-chief executives

Keith Froud and Lino Mendiola take the helm in first leadership change since firm's creation through 2017 merger

17 Sep 2024

Cadwalader global litigation co-chair joins Vinson & Elkins in New York

Jason Halper joins alongside newly-minted partner Sara Brauerman

16 Sep 2024

Baker McKenzie's Korea JV law firm recruits team to launch tax practice

Principal John Kwak joins from Korea Big Six firm Kim & Chang with two more tax specialists

16 Sep 2024

A&O Shearman adds leveraged finance partner in Paris from Latham

Michel Houdayer latest in string of defections from Latham's Europe offices

16 Sep 2024

Loeb & Loeb hires 17 from Perkins Coie in Beijing

Partners James Zimmerman and Scott Palmer take team to Loeb ahead of Perkins’ Beijing closure

13 Sep 2024