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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
Kennedys recruits 19-strong team from Clyde & Co in Melbourne
UK insurance firm also added Clydes’ former Australia managing partner alongside 12-strong team in Sydney last December
Taylor Wessing’s UK managing partner elected for third term
Shane Gleghorn has overseen revenue growth of nearly £140m since taking the helm in 2018
A&O Shearman follows Magic Circle rivals in raising NQ pay to £150k
Transatlantic firm equals Clifford Chance, Linklaters and Freshfields but still lags US firms at the top of the market
Wachtell, Kirkland lead on ConocoPhillips’ $22.5bn Marathon Oil acquisition
Wachtell guides ConocoPhillips as Kirkland counsels Marathon in latest energy industry mega deal
Pinsent Masons joins junior salary war, ups NQ pay to £97k
Five percent increase puts UK firm ahead of rivals including Addleshaw Goddard, Eversheds Sutherland and Bird & Bird
Cleary, DLA Piper and Sidley lead on T-Mobile’s $4.4bn buy of US Cellular’s wireless operations
Clifford Chance, Cravath and Washington DC boutique Wilkinson Barker Knauer also act in deal that will bring T-Mobile four million new customers
Paul Weiss adds former General Electric legal chief
Michael Holston joins having worked with Paul Weiss on breakup of GE into separate companies
Clifford Chance joins London salary war as it ups NQ pay to £150k
Firm matches Magic Circle rivals Freshfields and Linklaters but still lags market-topping £180k at Gibson Dunn and Quinn Emanuel
Baker McKenzie hires O’Melveny’s US M&A leader in New York
Tobias Knapp joins as co-head of global firm’s New York transactional group
Paul Hastings, Freshfields and Addleshaws lead on Coventry Building Society’s £780m Co-op Bank acquisition
Deal to create lender with £89bn balance sheet and nearly five million customers
Goodwin, Covington shepherd Biogen’s $1.8bn acquisition of rare disease drugmaker
Covington counsels Biogen as Goodwin reps acquisition target Human Immunobiology Biosciences
White & Case builds in Germany with hire of capital markets partner duo from Latham
Oliver Seiler and David Rath join US firm in Frankfurt amid reports Latham restructuring partner duo are moving to Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Travers Smith spins out AI technology products into new software business
Jylo to sell AI platform to wider legal market as independent entity
Eversheds Sutherland to close Berlin office
Transatlantic firm asserts ambition for Germany where it will have four offices following closure
Latham, Kirkland shepherd CyberArk’s $1.5bn Venafi acquisition
Latham guides CyberArk in acquisition of cybersecurity business from Kirkland-repped Thoma Bravo
Latham recruits life sciences partner duo in DC from Skadden, real estate partner in New York
Former FDA lawyers Jennifer Bragg and William McConagha move over in DC as Safehold CLO Douglas Heitner joins real estate team in New York
Kennedys hires 12-lawyer team in Madrid from Clyde & Co
Group led by trio of insurance partners triples Kennedys’ lawyer headcount in Spanish capital