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City firm BDB Pitmans adds private wealth boutique

Portrait Solicitors’ trio of partners to join BDB next April with team of associates after ‘many years’ of collaboration

17 Dec 2021

Greenberg Traurig adds Holland & Knight team to launch labour practice in Mexico City

Partner Leslie Palma joins as a shareholder along with six associates in 'natural progression' for 60-strong office

16 Dec 2021

Clifford Chance elects successor to long-standing global managing partner Layton

European head to take over on 1 May at end of Layton's second four-year term

16 Dec 2021

Gibson Dunn makes quartet of partner-level private equity hires from Sidley and Linklaters in London

LA firm continues UK push; joining as partners are two Sidley partners and senior associates from Sidley and Linklaters

15 Dec 2021

Winston & Strawn builds Chicago litigation offering with McDermott partner duo

Co-chair of McDermott’s class action practice moves over along with product liability specialist

14 Dec 2021

Heathrow secures GC from Virgin Media to help steer it through sustained Covid-19 turbulence

Mine Hifzi to take over in July replacing longstanding GC Carol Hui who left in August

10 Dec 2021

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas opens in Singapore after hiring Nishith Desai's ex-office head

First base outside home country to offer Indian law in areas including international arbitration and private client

9 Dec 2021

Sidley adds 42 new partners in bumper round that leans towards litigators

Chicago firm’s litigation group sees 11 lawyers made up in round that is significantly larger than last year’s

9 Dec 2021

Baker McKenzie responds to ‘completely valid’ questions over hiring of ex-UK privacy tsar

Global firm underlines commitment to good governance after campaign groups criticise Elizabeth Denham’s consultancy role

7 Dec 2021

Nigeria’s Olaniwun Ajayi adds finance trio from international rivals for London launch

Lawyers from Dentons and White & Case among those joining the firm to lead the opening of its first office outside Nigeria

6 Dec 2021

Baker Botts to end physical presence in Asia with Hong Kong office closure

Move follows US law firm shuttering its Beijing office last year

3 Dec 2021

HFW boosts Australia construction offering with Herbert Smith Freehills hire

Michael Debney latest to join firm's construction team in Australia

2 Dec 2021

Arent Fox and Schiff Hardin announce merger to create firm with revenue of more than $500m

Combined firm to house more than 600 lawyers and policy professionals and rank among US top 100 by revenue

2 Dec 2021

McCann Fitzgerald becomes an LLP as it elects new managing partner

Irish firm latest of Big Seven to change legal status; Stephen Holst set to take over next April from Barry Devereux

22 Nov 2021

Pérez-Llorca moves London office from City to Mayfair to be nearer international fund clients

Three lawyers from firm's Spanish offices also set to join resident partner Álvaro Ramírez de Haro in new location

17 Nov 2021

DLA Piper boosts Paris litigation and regulatory offering with King & Spalding hire

Newly-minted partner Ruxandra Lazar joins after eight years at top 25 US firm

16 Nov 2021

Boies Schiller hires four-partner team from Italian independent to open in Milan

New York litigation specialist secures 'at least' 15 lawyers from RP Legal & Tax to anchor first new office since 2013

15 Nov 2021

Singapore’s Allen & Gledhill adds JP Morgan assistant general counsel as private wealth practice co-head

Eng Cher Goh joins as after a decade at the banking giant in New York and Asia

12 Nov 2021

Taylor Wessing boosts international disputes and investigations offering with Collyer Bristow duo

Collyer’s head of commercial disputes joins firm in London along with an associate

12 Nov 2021

Kennedys hires former government adviser to lead data transformation drive

Antonio Acuña, honoured for 'services to transparency and open data', joins in new role as head of data strategy

11 Nov 2021