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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
Van Bael & Bellis unveils new managing partner
Competition lawyer Andreas Reindl to take helm of leading Belgian firm 1 February
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Quinn Emanuel secures restructuring heavyweight David Ereira in London from Paul Hastings
Lehman Brothers bankruptcy advisor Ereira joins after eight years at Paul Hastings
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
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
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
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
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
Quinn Emanuel’s London arm posts 47% increase in revenue
‘Material’ one-off success fee drives eye-catching results as profit soars 60%
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