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Freshfields hires Cravath M&A partner in New York

UK giant follows up on Kirkland raid last week by securing third partner from Cravath since 2021

24 Jan 2024

Van Bael & Bellis unveils new managing partner

Competition lawyer Andreas Reindl to take helm of leading Belgian firm 1 February

23 Jan 2024

Willkie adds Gibson Dunn partner to co-chair national white collar defence group

Former government lawyer Michael Li-Ming Wong joins in San Francisco and Palo Alto

23 Jan 2024

Brown Rudnick adds UK white collar chief from Jenner & Block

Former SFO prosecutor Paul Feldberg latest in string of senior lateral hires for Brown Rudnick’s London office

22 Jan 2024

Pérez-Llorca beefs up leadership structure by appointing two executive partners

Duo will support long-serving senior partner Pedro Pérez-Llorca at Spanish heavyweight which has been growing rapidly

22 Jan 2024

Gowling WLG boosts corporate offering with London partner hire from Pinsent Masons

Corporate insurance and de-risking specialist Madhu Jain joins after five years at Pinsents

19 Jan 2024

Morrison Foerster secures ECVC partner duo in Denver from Holland & Hart

Chuck Cotter and Finity Jernigan join West Coast firm having co-chaired Holland & Hart’s food, beverage and consumer products industry group

19 Jan 2024

Former chief counsel to McCarthy as House Speaker joins Mayer Brown

Kimberly Hamm will lead her new firm’s congressional investigations group in Washington DC

18 Jan 2024

Hill Dickinson secures former Ince team for Cyprus office launch

Shipping partners George Zambartas and Ester Toumpouris join alongside trio of associates and existing support team

18 Jan 2024

Cleary, Skadden and Goodwin chip in for Synopsys’ $35bn Ansys deal

Cleary acts for Synopsys as Skadden and Goodwin counsel Ansys in cash-and-stock deal that could attract regulatory scrutiny

17 Jan 2024

EY Law set to cut 24 UK legal roles as demand weakens

Latest round of job cuts follows Big Four giant’s decision to close EY Riverview Law

17 Jan 2024

Eversheds Sutherland absorbs four-partner KWM team in Frankfurt

Ten lawyers join with business services colleague as part of Eversheds’ and KWM’s cooperation agreement forged last year

16 Jan 2024

Quinn Emanuel secures restructuring heavyweight David Ereira in London from Paul Hastings

Lehman Brothers bankruptcy advisor Ereira joins after eight years at Paul Hastings

16 Jan 2024

HFW adds four-lawyer disputes team in Australia from rival Clyde & Co

Partner Maurice Thompson rejoins with three lawyers to lead HFW’s global litigation funding team

15 Jan 2024

Bowmans secures restructuring team from rival Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr in Johannesburg

Practice head Tobie Jordaan moves over alongside three more partners and a pair of associates

12 Jan 2024

Clyde & Co fined £500k for anti-money laundering regulation breaches

Former chair of UK firm’s global marine practice group also fined for due diligence failures unearthed in 2018

12 Jan 2024

Kirkland, Latham advise on Chesapeake’s $7.4bn deal for Southwestern

Top M&A firms instructed on latest multibillion-dollar energy industry deal, with Wachtell Lipton also called in

11 Jan 2024

US law firms see revenue and demand up but sagging productivity squeezes profits

Law firms undergo ‘sorting out’ as transactional work declines and clients shift work down market, according to new research by Thomson Reuters and Georgetown Law

11 Jan 2024

Quinn Emanuel’s London arm posts 47% increase in revenue

‘Material’ one-off success fee drives eye-catching results as profit soars 60%

10 Jan 2024

Wachtell, Skadden called in for Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s $14bn Juniper acquisition

Freshfields and Covington also advise on deal highlighting increased appetite for big ticket deals after slump in 2023

10 Jan 2024