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Baker Botts secures Ashurst energy projects team for Singapore debut

Launch sees US firm regain physical presence in Asia Pacific after shuttering Hong Kong base in 2021

15 May 2023

Perkins Coie adds K&L Gates renewables practice leads on West Coast

Buck Endemann and Elizabeth Crouse join as Inflation Reduction Act heralds clean energy investment boom

15 May 2023

Dentons’ ‘historic’ India combination goes live

Move sees Dentons becomes first international law firm to combine with an Indian firm

15 May 2023

Nixon Peabody and Stroock target summer merger deal, media report states

Talks follow team departures from New York-based Stroock as it seeks growth as 'number one priority'

12 May 2023

London real estate heavyweight and BCLP EMEA senior partner Robert MacGregor to retire

MacGregor to step down after more than 40 years advising on major real estate deals including in relation to Canary Wharf

12 May 2023

Fladgate strikes upbeat note at start of UK financial reporting season with 10% revenue jump

Market 'holds up well' for top 100 UK firm as income hits £74m with PEP expected to reach record high

11 May 2023

Steptoe & Johnson bolsters Asia investigations practice in New York with Shearman & Sterling duo

Cáitrín McKiernan and Brian Burke join as latest in string of hires in Steptoe’s investigations and white collar defence team

11 May 2023

Dechert cuts 5% of global workforce as Big Law layoffs continue

Top 50 US firm to shed almost 100 lawyers and staff as it begins ‘redundancy process’ in London

10 May 2023

Barnes & Thornburg adds healthcare and capital markets partners for Nashville debut

Five partners join from Holland & Knight, Baker Donelson and Bass Berry & Sims as US firm continues rapid expansion across the country

10 May 2023

Kennedys adds DAC Beachcroft specialist liability lead for Newcastle launch

Andrea Ward joins to launch insurance specialist’s 13th UK office as DAC Beachcroft colleagues Tom Walshaw and Andrew Sheppard defect to Kennedys in London

9 May 2023

Baker Hostetler adds eight lawyers to West Coast corporate team from AmLaw 100 rivals

Former M&A and securities practice leaders among arrivals from Proskauer Rose, Polsinelli and Kirkland & Ellis

9 May 2023

Travers Smith senior partner to step down

Kathleen Russ to remain at London firm as a consultant after stepping down in June

5 May 2023

Linklaters, Allen & Overy and Cravath called in for Deutsche Börse’s €3.9bn SimCorp acquisition

Covington & Burling also acts on German stock exchange operator's biggest acquisition to date alongside Germany's Hengeler Mueller and Danish firms Plesner and Kromann Reumert

4 May 2023

Partners take 100-plus lawyers from Lewis Brisbois for new employment spinoff

Am Law 100 firm’s employment team leaders defect to set up boutique, taking up to 140 lawyers with them

3 May 2023

Allen & Overy adds corporate partner duo in Singapore from Baker McKenzie

Kenny Kwan and Caryn Ng join as magic circle firm moves to bolster its Asia-Pacific equity capital markets and public M&A offering

3 May 2023

Kennedys makes up 20 partners with women in majority for a second year

Cohort sees UK firm’s global partner tally pass 300

2 May 2023

Blank Rome adds international trade team in Washington DC from McDermott Will & Emery

Partners Joanne Osendarp and Eric Parnes join alongside seven more lawyers and trade advisors to bolster free trade agreements and trade disputes offering

2 May 2023

DAC Beachcroft in talks with private equity firm to sell claims business

Sale of claims solutions group would see DAC Beachcroft halve its workforce

28 Apr 2023

Holland & Knight adds 17-lawyer team in Mexico from Sánchez DeVanny

US firm hails ‘transformational  moment’ for LatAm practice as seven partners and team bolster Mexico City and Monterrey offices

28 Apr 2023

Clifford Chance elects 32 new partners in diverse round

Twelve women included in round that sees 39% of new US and UK partners come from minority ethnic backgrounds

27 Apr 2023