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Greenberg Traurig secures Baker Botts partner to lead London energy team
Shashank Krishna latest in spate of energy hires as Greenberg ramps up offering across US, Europe and Asia
Baker McKenzie adds construction and energy partner duo in Sydney from Norton Rose Fulbright
NRF’s Australia construction and engineering team lead Emanuel Confos to move over alongside Harriet Oldmeadow
Permira names former Clifford Chance lawyer next general counsel
Peter Gibbs to succeed Ulrich Gasse as private equity giant’s top lawyer at the start of next year
Prominent City firms sign climate crisis pledge
Osborne Clarke, DLA Piper and Mishcon de Reya among eight firms signing pledge to help limit global warming to 1.5°C
Ashurst targets Australia M&A with twin Gilbert + Tobin partner hires
Neil Pathak joins as Ashurst’s first Australia head of M&A alongside Susannah Macknay as firm looks to build public and private M&A offering
Skadden, Clifford Chance advise on Generali’s €2.3bn acquisition of Liberty Seguros
Cash deal sees Irish heavyweight Matheson and Portugal’s Morais Leitão also called in
Kirkland & Ellis builds energy offering in Washington DC with tax partner from Allen & Overy
Hire latest example of law firms responding to Biden administration’s $370bn clean energy subsidies
AI will make judicial decisions with avenue to appeal to humans, predicts top judge
Legal profession must develop mechanisms to deal with generative AI says Master of the Rolls Sir Geoffrey Vos
Boies Schiller Flexner continues London rebuild with art law team hire from Constantine Cannon
Constantine Cannon’s London founding partner Pierre Valentin moves over alongside five counsel and associates
Skadden names senior corporate lawyer Jeremy London new executive partner
London to succeed incumbent Eric Friedman next April as Wall Street heavyweight’s fourth executive partner
Reed Smith lays off staff and lawyers as Big Law job cuts continue
Firm reportedly cuts 50 staff and lawyers citing 'reduced demand for legal services across the industry'
Slaughters and Linklaters dial in for Vodafone and Three’s £15bn UK merger
Slaughters acts for Vodafone as Linklaters counsels Three UK and owner CK Hutchison in deal likely to face competition scrutiny
Orrick cuts 6% of global workforce
West Coast heavyweight blames subdued market and ‘impact of technology, data and the evolving workplace’
Freshfields pushes US growth with four-partner team from Wilson Sonsini
Senior risk and crisis management lawyers join in Silicon Valley, Washington DC
Norton Rose Fulbright builds in Paris with senior A&O corporate partner
Jean-Claude Rivalland helped found A&O’s Paris arm in 1999 and led the Paris office for eight years from 2010
Wachtell, Kirkland called in for Nasdaq’s $10.5bn Adenza acquisition
Wachtell advises longtime client Nasdaq on biggest acquisition to date as exchange operator deepens fintech push
Simpson Thacher adds partners from Paul Weiss, Latham to lead alternative capital practice
Paul Weiss hybrid capital lead Tracey Zaccone joins in New York alongside Latham veteran David Teh
Barber Ranen rebrands after name partners resign over sexist, racist emails
Firm launched last month by former Lewis Brisbois partners renamed Daugherty Lordan
Plexus Law files intention to appoint administrator
UK insurance firm has been grappling with "impact of serious financial irregularities" discovered in 2019
Herbert Smith Freehills names first managing partner for digital legal services
Alternative legal services chief Libby Jackson assumes new role intended to expand HSF’s digital advisory services