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Morrison Foerster latest to shutter China office
Top 50 US firm says it can best serve China clients from Hong Kong and Shanghai as it shutters four-partner Beijing office
SRA issues warning over law firm mergers
Regulator says firms must prioritise clients’ interests following high-profile collapses of consolidator firms
Akin names successors to veteran chair Koopersmith
UK-US duo Dan Walsh and Abid Qureshi to take over as co-chairs of top 40 US firm next April
Browne Jacobson boosts turnover by 12% to record high
Top 50 firm more than doubles revenue in a decade as turnover in year to 30 April 2024 rises to £118m
Cadwalader duo join Greenberg Traurig in London
Departures come less than a week after Cadwalader loses four-partner finance team in London to King & Spalding
Linklaters real estate team departs for Swedish independent
Former real estate transactions practice heads Magnus Lidman and Anna Eriksson take five associates to Gernandt & Danielsson
Sidley Austin raises London NQ pay for second time this year
Pay climbs to £175k putting Chicago-based firm close to Quinn Emanuel’s and Gibson Dunn’s market-topping £180k
Fenwick Elliott rings in new senior partner after 23 years
Karen Gidwani to succeed veteran leader Simon Tolson at helm of UK construction and energy boutique next April
King & Spalding adds four-partner finance team in London from Cadwalader
Fund finance and ESG partners make the move alongside team of associates
Hogan Lovells enters London pay war, ups NQ pay to £135k
Boost follows international Magic Circle firms upping NQ pay to £150k
Willkie adds 11-lawyer restructuring team in Germany from Latham
Partners Jörn Kowalewski and Ulrich Klockenbrink join in Frankfurt with team as part of Willkie’s new German strategy
ArentFox Schiff hires eight-partner team in Boston from Burns & Levinson
IP and disputes group’s move follows ArentFox Schiff adding automotive partner quartet from Burns in Boston in April
Kirkland, Ropes & Gray steer Bain’s $5.6bn PowerSchool acquisition
Kirkland acts for longtime client PowerSchool as private equity-led deals show signs of picking up
Raft of firms called in for Waste Management’s $7.2bn Stericycle acquisition
Latham & Watkins, Hogan Lovells, Vinson & Elkins and Baker Botts steer deal to expand top US waste management company’s healthcare footprint
Kirkland, Latham lead on Champion’s $1.2bn sale to Authentic Brands
Kirkland acts for seller HanesBrands alongside Jones Day as Latham counsels Authentic
Latham, Orrick lead on SAP’s $1.5bn WalkMe acquisition
Israeli firms Meitar and Gornitzky & Co called in on deal to buy Israeli-founded SaaS company
Goodwin Procter raises NQ salary to £175k as London pay war continues
Increase from £160k sees it join elite group of US firms paying £170k or more
Simmons & Simmons adds technology quartet from Deloitte Legal, Goodwin Procter
Group led by former Deloitte Legal UK head of legal advisory Andrew Joint joins firm’s digital business group in London
Polsinelli adds second office in Utah’s Silicon Slopes
Firm becomes first in Am Law 100 to set up shop in wealthy resort town of Park City
Paul Hastings adds 11 restructuring and finance partners after mass raid on King & Spalding
Latest team hire sees up to 20 lawyers led by K&S restructuring and finance co-head Jennifer Daly join across US