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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

26 Jun 2023

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

26 Jun 2023

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

23 Jun 2023

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

22 Jun 2023

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

22 Jun 2023

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

21 Jun 2023

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

21 Jun 2023

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

20 Jun 2023

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

19 Jun 2023

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

16 Jun 2023

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'

15 Jun 2023

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 

14 Jun 2023

Orrick cuts 6% of global workforce

West Coast heavyweight blames subdued market and ‘impact of technology, data and the evolving workplace’

14 Jun 2023

Freshfields pushes US growth with four-partner team from Wilson Sonsini

Senior risk and crisis management lawyers join in Silicon Valley, Washington DC

13 Jun 2023

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

12 Jun 2023

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

12 Jun 2023

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

9 Jun 2023

Barber Ranen rebrands after name partners resign over sexist, racist emails

Firm launched last month by former Lewis Brisbois partners renamed Daugherty Lordan

8 Jun 2023

Plexus Law files intention to appoint administrator

UK insurance firm has been grappling with "impact of serious financial irregularities" discovered in 2019

7 Jun 2023

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

6 Jun 2023