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White & Case lures private equity heavyweight from Paul Weiss in New York

Taurie Zeitzer joins to co-head PE industry group having co-chaired Paul Weiss’s M&A practice

5 Jan 2024

Hogan Lovells adds 28 new partners in latest promotions round

Proportion of women falls from 60% in 2022 to 43% in round that sees US once again dominate

4 Jan 2024

Kirkland tops global 2023 M&A rankings ahead of Latham as dealmaking hits 10-year low

Deal value fell 17% in 2023 to $2.9trn with volume down 6% to 55,200

4 Jan 2024

K&L Gates promotes 25 to partnership as Akin Gump makes up 13

Akin’s round sees women again dominate as K&L Gates’ shrinks from last year’s 40-strong cohort

3 Jan 2024

Willkie adds private equity partner in Houston from Shearman & Sterling

Energy specialist Sarah McLean joins ahead of Shearman’s merger with Allen & Overy

3 Jan 2024

Former FisherBroyles practice leaders take 130 lawyers for new spin-off firm

Pierson Ferdinand among largest law firm debuts in US history

2 Jan 2024

White & Case secures Macfarlanes partner to head London white collar team

Neill Blundell joins having led Macfarlanes’ corporate crime and investigations practice

21 Dec 2023

Kennedys adds 12-strong insurance team in Sydney from Clyde & Co

Team joins Clydes’ former Australia managing partner, Lucinda Lyons, at new firm

20 Dec 2023

Simpson Thacher adds fund finance partner in London from Travers Smith

Katie McMenamin’s exit follows funds duo Ed Ford and Sacha Gofton-Salmond defecting to Simpson Thacher earlier this year

20 Dec 2023

Paul Weiss continues London hiring spree with Clifford Chance partner duo

CC’s London private equity head joins alongside finance specialist just a few months after Paul Weiss’s eight-partner raid on Kirkland

19 Dec 2023

Ropes & Gray, Milbank and Wachtell lead on $14.9bn US Steel acquisition

Milbank and Wachtell advise US Steel as Ropes & Gray counsels Japan’s Nippon Steel on its biggest acquisistion to date

19 Dec 2023

Reed Smith secures capital markets partner in London from Linklaters

Linklaters lifer Mark Drury one of three partners to leave Magic Circle firm in recent days

18 Dec 2023

Standard Chartered’s GC Okoro sets up diversity taskforce with quartet of legal advisers

A&O, Eversheds Sutherland, Simmons and Sullivan will join bank in seeking ways of “improving opportunities for minority talent”

15 Dec 2023

Dentons CEO Portnoy to step down after more than a decade at helm

Firm to employ consultancy to help find successor for Portnoy, whose term ends in November 2024

14 Dec 2023

Sidley promotes 29 to partner in latest US-dominated round

Cohort comes close to achieving gender parity, with 14 women getting the nod

14 Dec 2023

Ex-Kirkland partner Rory Mullarkey joins Matheson in London

Senior lawyer who led Kirkland’s private equity push will develop Irish firm’s private capital work

13 Dec 2023

Jones Day promotes 51 to partner in latest US-dominated round

Proportion of women dips from almost half last year to just over 30%

13 Dec 2023

Seyfarth Shaw adds white collar quartet from dissolving Stroock

Co-chair of Stroock’s white collar and internal investigations practice among those moving over in New York and Washington DC

12 Dec 2023

Clyde & Co raids Dentons for Poland debut with 20-strong team

Three current and former energy-focused partners join with their teams in Warsaw

12 Dec 2023

Pérez-Llorca adds 17 lawyers from rivals for Lisbon launch

Six partners and their teams join from firms including Portugal’s RRP Advogados as Spanish heavyweight continues international expansion

11 Dec 2023