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Hogan Lovells to close offices in Johannesburg, Sydney and Warsaw
Closures to affect more than 120 lawyers and support staff
Latham adds senior tax partner in London from Travers Smith
Simon Skinner joins having earlier led Travers’ tax team
Greenberg Traurig opens doors in São Paulo
New base in Brazil’s financial centre will provide US legal advice on cross-border transactions
Perkins Coie to shutter Beijing base, refocus on Shenzhen
US firm closed its Shanghai office in March
Kennedys opens offices in Los Angeles and Seattle
UK firm continues US expansion after growth push that began with 2017 merger
Womble Bond Dickinson and Lewis Roca announce merger
Combination to create top 70 US firm with revenue of $740m and more than 1,300 lawyers
Cooley boosts London ECVC bench with triple partner hire from US rivals
Taylor Wessing’s ECVC head joins alongside partners from White & Case and Goodwin Procter
Freshfields announces social mobility recruitment target for trainee intake
Global giant wants at least 20% of UK trainees to come from lower socio-economic backgrounds
A&O Shearman, Baker McKenzie score roles on Methanex’s $2.05bn OCI deal
Reed Smith also called in for sale of OCI’s methanol business alongside McCarthy Tétrault and Loyens & Loeff
Weil recruits ex-Goldman Sachs lawyer for London finance team
Nicola Noël joins US firm as a partner from Canadian pension investor PSP Investments
Troutman Pepper, Locke Lord cement $1.6bn merger
Troutman Pepper Locke to have 1,600 lawyers across 33 US and two European offices
A&O Shearman to axe 10% of partnership and close Johannesburg office
Consulting arm will also close as UK giant takes ‘difficult but necessary’ step to ‘reshape’ business
Wall Street stalwarts score lead roles on Verizon’s $20bn Frontier acquisition
Debevoise, Cravath and Paul Weiss called in for deal to boost Verizon’s US fibre network
Reed Smith latest US firm to reduce China footprint with Beijing closure
Move leaves firm with China bases in Shanghai, Hong Kong
Freshfields recruits senior capital markets partner in New York from Paul Hastings
Christopher DeCresce was previously vice chair of Paul Hastings’ securities and capital markets practice
Latham names successor to London managing partner Kensell
Corporate partner Ed Barnett takes over leadership of 500-lawyer office
Slaughter and May boosts NQ pay to £150k
Final Magic Circle firm to bump up salaries from £125k amid ongoing salary war
Eversheds adds ex-Quinn Emanuel partner, Freshfields partner to London disputes bench
Former Quinn Emanuel UK competition co-head joins transatlantic firm alongside Freshfields’ Japan head of disputes
Morrison Foerster loses four Asia partners to Baker McKenzie, Jingtian & Gongcheng
Movers include MoFo’s Singapore managing partner Shirin Tang
DLA Piper launches legal delivery centre in Germany with Pinsent Masons duo
Partners Michael Zollner and Carl Renner join having co-headed Pinsents’ flexi-lawyering arm Vario in Germany