News About Dechert

Dechert hires new Dubai managing partner from White & Case

Phillip Sacks rejoins following two-year stint at White & Case, where he led the Middle East funds practice

6 Mar 2026

Dechert hires more than 20 partners from McDermott, opens in Chicago, Dallas

Incoming group includes Mike Poulos, who joins as vice chair and global head of strategy

26 Jan 2026

Dechert hires private equity partner from Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC in London

Jarlath Pratt returns to private practice after more than a decade working in-house

19 Jan 2026

Dechert adds senior PE lawyer in London from GIC

Jarlath Pratt joins as partner having been assistant general counsel at Singaporean sovereign wealth fund

26 Jun 2025

Dechert adds four-lawyer Orrick finance team in London

Sushila Nayak joins to serve as a leader of Dechert’s CLO effort in London alongside three further lawyers

2 Jun 2025

Norton Rose Fulbright makes double hire from Locke Lord and Dechert in London

Kirsty Harrower and Jamal Tuhin join as partners in the real estate and private equity teams, respectively

6 Jan 2025

Dechert, Garrigues disputes partners exit to become independent arbitrators

Arif Hyder Ali and Joe Tirado are the latest arbitration partners to swap ‘Big Law’ for boutique life

2 Jan 2025

Increased global regulatory scrutiny to impact private equity deal activity, survey finds

Despite challenges, deal environment is expected to improve next year as exit opportunities increase, Dechert says

12 Nov 2024

Dechert shuts Frankfurt arm ahead of impending Chicago, Beijing and Hong Kong closures

Top 40 US firm closed office in April leaving it with a single German base in Munich

4 Jul 2024

Paul Weiss secures Dechert’s mass tort co-head in Los Angeles

Kimberly Branscome joins having counselled GSK, 3M and Johnson & Johnson in high-profile litigation

5 Feb 2024

Signature signs up former Dechert arbitration partner in Paris

Philip Dunham was a member of the 13-strong arbitration team which quit Dechert last month

2 Jan 2024

Dechert’s Paris international arbitration team to spin out as local boutique

Departure of 13-strong team is being put down to a strategy shift by Dechert

29 Nov 2023

UK’s SFO calls time on ENRC and Rio Tinto probes

Fraud watchdog closes decade-long investigation into Kazakh miner ENRC citing “insufficient admissible evidence to prosecute”

25 Aug 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

Dechert secures Travers Smith PE funds partner in London

Sam Kay exit sees top UK independent Travers lose another partner following series of defections for US and UK rivals

22 Mar 2023

Dechert secures trio of senior transatlantic antitrust partners from Orrick

Orrick’s antitrust and competition group head moves over in Washington DC alongside new arrivals in San Francisco and London

6 Feb 2023

Dechert names successors to chair Levander as it rings in new global leadership team

Corporate partners David Forti and Mark Thierfelder to serve as co-chairs; US firm also retires CEO role and announces first global managing partners

1 Dec 2022

Ex-Dechert London partner leaked details of client investigation to press, judge rules

UK court finds in favour of former mining client ENRC after closely watched 47-day hearing

16 May 2022