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Linklaters ups London NQ pay to £150k
Firm matches Magic Circle rival Freshfields but still lags market topping £180k at Gibson Dunn and Quinn Emanuel
Nelson Mullins adds litigation team from London Fischer for new LA office
Product liability group including three partners join across national firm’s second LA office and in New York
Womble Bond Dickinson names successor to US chair and CEO Temple
Finance partner Merrick Benn to take over from veteran leader Betty Temple at the start of next year
Cahill adds lawyer trio from crypto boutique, launches Delaware office
Wall Street firm hires team including prominent crypto partner Lewis Rinaudo Cohen in move intended to create one-stop shop for crypto advice
Venable debuts in Colorado with eight-lawyer team from Sherman & Howard
Trial lawyer James Sawtelle joins to lead new office in Denver alongside seven commercial and employment litigators and counsellors
Bird & Bird adds Ashurst corporate partner for Tokyo launch
Office to handle outbound work for Japanese clients as UK firm aims to reach €1bn revenue in five years
Perkins Coie debuts in London with former White & Case PE leader
Ian Bagshaw joins alongside five more lawyers to bring US firm’s tech-focused practice to European market
Cleary Gottlieb adds private equity lawyers from Kirkland, Travers Smith in London recruitment drive
Debt finance partner Alexander van der Gaag joins from Kirkland as counsel Joanna Roberts moves over from Travers Smith
Quinn Emanuel ups London NQ pay to £180k
Litigation heavyweight matches Gibson Dunn’s market-topping NQ rate as it ups associate salaries across the board
Paul Weiss adds antitrust partner from European Commission for Brussels launch
Henrik Morch joins recent antitrust recruits from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Macfarlanes in new office
Skadden recruits SoFi GC, Shearman fintech co-chair to lead financial institutions regulatory group
Adam Cohen and Mark Chorazak join in New York and Washington DC respectively amid increasing US bank regulation
Orrick adds seven-lawyer M&A and private equity team in Italy from Shearman
Team led by partner Fabio Fauceglia joins tech-focused firm as other former Shearman Italy partners move to White & Case and Willkie
Squire Patton Boggs adds partners across UK from four firms
Transatlantic firm boosts finance, litigation, environmental and tax bench with hires from rivals including Eversheds Sutherland and PwC
Paul Weiss launches Latin America practice with corporate hire from Willkie Farr
M&A partner Maria-Leticia Ossa Daza joins in New York having founded and led Willkie’s LatAm practice
Willkie Farr launches in Dallas with Haynes and Boone private equity team
Partners Tom Tippetts, Brandon McCoy and Chase Proctor join from Texan firm as four Willkie private equity partners relocate
Sidley Austin to close Shanghai office
Chicago-founded Sidley latest US firm to scale back in China as it consolidates operations in Beijing and Hong Kong
‘London a priority’ – Davis Polk secures Paul Hastings finance co-head
Luke McDougall joins as Wall Street firm moves to build out UK leveraged finance bench
Mayer Brown agrees to split from Hong Kong partnership citing 'strategic priorities'
US firm will continue to operate in Hong Kong, but bulk of office will resurrect historic Johnson Stokes & Master brand
Clifford Chance underlines US ambitions with hires from Shearman and White & Case
Announcement of former Shearman tax partner’s arrival came on day A&O Shearman came into being
Simpson Thacher adds Skadden funds partner ahead of Boston debut
Kenneth Burdon to be joined by Simpson Thacher funds partner Nathan Somogie for launch later this year