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Quinn Emanuel stays ‘top of market’ with London associate pay hike

Litigation heavyweight hands out 5% salary increase to all London associates having matched Milbank’s new pay grades for its junior US lawyers earlier this week

5 Jun 2026

Mishcon rolls out extra bonus for top-performing associates

City firm introduces bonus boost with star performers able to earn up to 30% more than their base salary

4 Jun 2026

White & Case hires Freshfields M&A partner duo in Tokyo as it targets record deal market

Arrival of Noah Carr and Gordon Palmquist comes hard on the heels of Kirkland’s Tokyo launch

4 Jun 2026

Milbank bumps associate salaries, signals new law firm pay race

McDermott Will & Schulte becomes first to match new pay scale, which hits $455k for eighth year associates

3 Jun 2026

Five London lawyers make the grade in Sidley’s 52-strong partner promotions round

Off-cycle round is US firm’s first since introducing a salaried partner tier earlier this year

2 Jun 2026

Kirkland hires from three firms for Tokyo launch

M&A and debt finance trio join from MoFo, White & Case and Ropes for Chicago giant’s first Asian office outside Greater China

1 Jun 2026

Transatlantic Winston Taylor merger goes live

Tie-up of Winston & Strawn and Taylor Wessing’s UK-led business completed today, creating firm with 1,400 lawyers and £1.2bn in revenue

1 Jun 2026

Kirkland to invest $500m building own AI platform

Chicago giant flexes financial muscle to develop proprietary AI products

29 May 2026

Quartet of firms guide $17.6bn Caesars Entertainment acquisition

Latham, Skadden, Freshfields and White & Case score roles in deal that will see casino giant’s acquisition by conglomerate owned by billionaire Tilman Fertitta

29 May 2026

Latham & Watkins adds MoFo London chief in M&A team hire

Andrew Boyd joins with two more partners in hire that boosts Latham’s tech M&A credentials in the City

28 May 2026

UK platform firms exceed 5,000 lawyers for first time, report finds

The model is also attracting more lawyers from large commercial firms, according to research by legal analytics company Codex Edge

27 May 2026

PE-backed HF rescues Rosling King team from administration

Deal sees around 40 London staff join HF to boost dispute resolution, insolvency and real estate offering

27 May 2026

Charles Russell Speechlys adds Stephenson Harwood private client team in Asia push

UK firm says addition of five-strong Hong Kong team creates region’s largest private client practice

26 May 2026

Kirkland, McGuireWoods called in for NextEra’s $67bn Dominion acquisition

One of the largest energy mergers aims to meet surging AI-driven data centre electricity demand

19 May 2026

Dentons hires Baker McKenzie team to launch Hong Kong IP practice

Incoming group includes veteran IP trio Loke-Khoon Tan, Maria Joannides Smith and Dominic Edmondson

19 May 2026

Kirkland recruits antitrust partner quartet from Cleary across Brussels and London

Top-ranked EU competition lawyer Robbert Snelders among those moving over

18 May 2026

Wachtell, Sullivan & Cromwell guide Publicis’ $2.2bn buy of US data firm LiveRamp

First quarter’s leading M&A firms advise on deal that continues Publicis’ strategy to build access to data

18 May 2026

Cooley launches energy, infrastructure and real estate group with Baker Botts energy co-chair

Mona Dajani joins in New York to lead practice alongside Cooley veteran Michelle Schulman

8 May 2026

MoFo builds in London with tech transactions trio from Morgan Lewis, Baker McKenzie

Hires mean MoFo has added 10 lawyers to its partnership in London over the past year

8 May 2026

A&O Shearman cuts business services roles in London

Up to 20 roles affected as transatlantic firm becomes latest in string of international players to axe jobs

7 May 2026