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Gibson Dunn boosts London corporate bench with PE trio from Vinson & Elkins

Federico Fruhbeck to serve as Gibson Dunn’s Europe head of private equity and comes aboard with Vinson partner Robert Dixon and counsel Alice Brogi

18 Oct 2021

UK top 100 firm in merger talks with City player

Royds Withy King and Goodman Derrick merger plan to create firm with revenue in excess of £50m

15 Oct 2021

John Lewis hires Clifford Chance real estate co-head as GC in newly created role

Jane Cheong Tung Sing joins as partnership GC and company secretary after 25 years at Clifford Chance

14 Oct 2021

King & Spalding bolsters employment and compliance offering with six partner-level hires from US rivals

New recruits join from Seyfath Shaw, Simpson Thacher and Barnes & Thornburg across Chicago and New York

13 Oct 2021

Greenberg Traurig signs up highly rated six-partner Mishcon fraud and business disputes team

Top 20 US firm continues rapid growth in London as partners depart UK firm ahead of its planned flotation

13 Oct 2021

Listed tech startup acquires conveyancing firm to test products

ULS Technology has purchased Amity Law for an undisclosed sum

12 Oct 2021

Foley hires IP litigation team for Salt Lake City opening

New office intended to strengthen firm's tech and life sciences offering in growing startup hub

12 Oct 2021

Osborne Clarke announces new senior partner to replace veteran Andrew Saul

Peter Clough will take up the mantle next January after Saul completes second term

11 Oct 2021

Oon & Bazul grows Singapore disputes capability with trio of partner-level hires

Benedict Eoon, Jerald Foo and Priscilla Lua come aboard with Magic Circle and Singapore Big Four experience

11 Oct 2021

Dentons and Reed Smith join Magic Circle duo for controversial £305m Newcastle United takeover

Allen & Overy and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer make up quartet of firms acting in club’s sale to Saudi-led investment group

8 Oct 2021

Raft of leading firms join forces to launch legal ops training programme

Dentons, NRF and Linklaters among those taking part in novel initiative to speed development of legal ops talent

8 Oct 2021

Partners Group global head of legal departs to be Swiss impact investor’s first GC

Anela Musat joins Blue Horizon with mandate to build a ‘best in class’ legal team

7 Oct 2021

Pinsent Masons mourns death of Hong Kong head and veteran partner Vincent Connor

Connor, who passed away on 5 October after a period of illness, was 'unfailingly kind, funny and ever thoughtful of others'

7 Oct 2021

Top tier Portuguese boutique CS Associados prepares for 'generational change' as co-founders bow out

Francisco Sá Carneiro and Fernando Campos Ferreira to leave CS Associados at the end of the year

6 Oct 2021

Top antitrust team heads to Willkie Farr from Quinn Emanuel in London

Quinn’s UK competition litigation practice co-lead among group of partners and associates making the move

5 Oct 2021

Clyde & Co bolsters aviation offering with London boutique acquisition

Firm adds REN Legal’s 12-strong team to boost aviation practice’s transactional and commercial litigation offering

4 Oct 2021

Novartis legal and compliance solutions head jumps to EY for new legal managed services role

Santosh Singh joins accountancy giant in Hyderabad as Big Four push for bigger slice of legal market

30 Sep 2021

Mishcon de Reya bolsters Asia presence through tie-up with Hong Kong firm

Association with Karas to form disputes and investigations and private wealth practices follows launch in Singapore last year

28 Sep 2021

Slaughter and May chooses next senior partner in surprise move

Head of M&A set to take over in May 2024; firm points to 'long-term decision making' as it overhauls management structure

28 Sep 2021

Law firms in race to work on India’s biggest-ever IPO as government sweetens deal

Country’s largest firm among those bidding to advise state-run Life Insurance Corporation on its estimated $12bn stock offering

24 Sep 2021