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Mason Hayes & Curran elects financial services chief to succeed veteran managing partner

Will Carmody to take over after Declan Black's nine years at the helm that saw Irish firm double revenue and headcount

16 Dec 2022

Life sciences consultancy Trinity adds veteran tech GC as first legal leader

Paul Lucchese joins Trinity Life Sciences from EnterpriseDB following creation of 'strategic partnership' with Bain & Company that saw Bain take minority stake in Trinity

16 Dec 2022

O’Melveny elevates 11 to partner in litigation focused round

Exclusively US cohort includes litigators in the entertainment, consumer class actions and IP teams

15 Dec 2022

HFW's managing partner signals further hires and bolt-ons as he secures second term

Jeremy Shebson says UK firm will 'continue to actively target partners, teams and bolt-ons' across international network

15 Dec 2022

London fintech Hi Group hires McGuireWoods' former EMEA finance head as general counsel

Lee Cullinane climbs on board after a career break, bringing ‘integral’ legal expertise ahead of startup’s next growth phase

14 Dec 2022

Norton Rose Fulbright unveils Sydney-based partner as next global chair

Global re-structuring co-head Scott Atkins will succeed London partner Farmida Bi

14 Dec 2022

Trio of Wall Street law firms fired up for BDT Capital’s $3.7bn Weber take-private deal

Cravath acts for BDT Capital as teams from Davis Polk and Sullivan & Cromwell advise Weber

14 Dec 2022

Seyfarth elects first woman to lead firm

New York co-managing partner Lorie Almon to take over from Pete Miller next year

13 Dec 2022

Paul Hastings adds leading finance partner in New York from Weil Gotshal & Manges

Morgan Bale joins after 24 years at Weil having advised clients including Citi and Goldman Sachs on major deals

12 Dec 2022

Former A&O partner launches business and human rights focused boutique in London

Suzanne Spears unveils Paxus amid rise in disputes and investigations involving human rights issues

12 Dec 2022

McDermott bolsters Paris private equity offering with Dentons team hire

Partner Guillaume Panuel arrives with three associates, bringing key capabitlity to US firm’s PE offering in French capital

9 Dec 2022

King & Spalding adds 24 new partners in corporate and disputes focused promotions round

Atlanta giant again focuses on home turf in round featuring 42% women

9 Dec 2022

Biotech unicorn Mammoth Biosciences adds new GC in California from Intuitive Surgical

Siang Chin joins biotech company co-founded by Nobel laureate as Mammoth’s former GC heads to Intuitive

8 Dec 2022

Mourant expands into Luxembourg with local acquisition

Offshore firm follows up January acquisition of specialist accounting business with purchase of Luxembourg law firm LexField

8 Dec 2022

K&L Gates adds corporate and funds partner trio in Sydney from national firm

James Lomie, Natalya Hards and Lisa Lautier arrive from HWL Ebsworth

7 Dec 2022

Nigeria’s TEMPLARS marks international expansion with Ghana joint venture

Growing demand for services across West Africa sees TEMPLARS add team from Accra-based AMPEM Chambers to launch new firm

7 Dec 2022

KPMG adds hundreds of lawyers across Southeast Asia from regional network

Deal sees more than 275 lawyers including around 80 partners join from ZICO Law amid Asia growth push

6 Dec 2022

Clifford Chance elects new senior partner

City-based former global capital markets lead Adrian Cartwright to take over in January

6 Dec 2022

PwC adds lawyers from several firms to boost UK legal real estate offering

Suzanne Nethway joins from Osborne Clarke to head team along with four other lawyers as part of Big Four giant's push into legal

5 Dec 2022

Law Society backs calls for step-change in socio-economic diversity of professional services by 2030

Report calls for half of senior financial and professional services sector leadership to come from a non-professional background by 2030

2 Dec 2022