News About Allen & Overy

Baker McKenzie, Allen & Overy advise on Advent and Wilbur-Ellis chemicals tie-up

Advent’s Caldic and Wilbur-Ellis’s Connell to merge to create €3bn global life sciences and speciality chemicals business

14 Oct 2022

Allen & Overy adds Hogan Lovells partner in Perth to co-lead global mining practice

Corporate partner Matthew Johnson joins to head practice alongside Johannesburg managing partner Gerhard Rudolph

6 Oct 2022

White & Case nabs debt finance partner duo from A&O in New York

Rajani Gupta and Judah Frogel depart Magic Circle firm amid ongoing US growth push

13 Sep 2022

Allen & Overy hires co-head of corporate at India relationship firm Trilegal

Partner will head up India corporate group in London as Magic Circle firm eyes inbound investment work

19 Aug 2022

Linklaters trails key UK rivals in growth stakes as revenue rises 6.5% to £1.78bn

PEP grows 5.4% as firm achieves 'right combination of global coverage and high-quality cross practice expertise'

9 Aug 2022

Skadden secures A&O partner as duo vie for next generation arbitration talent in London

Kate McGill Davies QC is joining Skadden four months after David Herlihy moved the other way

28 Jul 2022

Allen & Overy points to 'exceptional' US performance as revenue grows by 10%

Fee income nears £2bn landmark; but Magic Circle firm warns of challenging conditions ahead as market softens

14 Jul 2022

Allen & Overy and Linklaters eye US growth with lateral partner hires

A&O adds to corporate team in Silicon Valley as Links boosts employee offering in New York

7 Jun 2022

Six London law firms back creation of new black British civil rights organisation

Magic Circle firms Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance, Freshfields and Slaughters among the six

26 May 2022

Allen & Overy unveils tech incubator's 'largest cohort ever' as it kicks off sixth edition

Group includes seven startups chosen in collaboration with A&O's clients

4 May 2022

Allen & Overy promotes 39 in bumper round

Women make up 36% of cohort dominated by banking and corporate

26 Apr 2022

Allen & Overy adds transactional offering in South Africa with double partner hire from Werksmans

Brian Price and Ze’ev Blieden join the UK firm in Johannesburg as it bets on booming global M&A landscape

4 Apr 2022

Nelson Mullins, Simpson Thacher lead Japan's Coincheck through $1.3bn SPAC merger

Allen & Overy, Mori Hamada & Matsumoto, Littler Mendleson, Anderson Mori & Tomotsune and De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek also act on merger with Thunder Bridge Capital Partners

24 Mar 2022

‘Simply the right thing to do’ – five more law firms announce departure from Moscow

Allen & Overy and Clifford Chance join ever-expanding roster of exiting firms; Winston chair cites ‘sense of solidarity with the Ukrainian people’

10 Mar 2022

Allen & Overy pledges to refuse new Russia-related instructions

UK Magic Circle firm condemns ‘unlawful invasion’ and also says it will ‘stop work that goes against our values’

2 Mar 2022

Allen & Overy to open in Boston after hiring five-partner IP litigation team from Goodwin Procter

UK Magic Circle firm gains presence in life sciences hub as it adds fifth office to US network

24 Feb 2022

Allen & Overy adds another Akin Gump energy partner in Washington DC

Hire follows A&O adding 21-strong Akin Gump renewables team last year for LA opening

16 Feb 2022

Allen & Overy hires leader from HSF for new legal services arm in Perth

Advanced Delivery Centre set to open 'in second quarter of 2022'

1 Feb 2022

Allen & Overy makes second senior disputes hire this month to exploit 'steep' rise in London fraud cases

First Norton Rose Fulbright, now RPC, as magic circle firm entices leading disputes partners into its ranks

27 Jan 2022

Allen & Overy hires Norton Rose Fulbright’s EMEA disputes head

UK giant bolsters banking litigation team after recent loss of senior litigator to White & Case

13 Jan 2022