News About Paul Hastings

Quartet of firms steer Madison Air’s $5.6bn acquisition of German fan-maker ebm-papst

Paul Hastings, Kirkland & Ellis and Hengeler Mueller guide Madison Air as Milbank advises ebm-papst’s owner families

20 Aug 2026

Paul Hastings, Goodwin, Sidley and Skadden among firms advising on Thoma Bravo’s $4bn Accelerant take private

Firms including Maples Group, Walkers, Conyers Dill & Pearman and Ropes & Gray also on deal

13 Aug 2026

Paul Hastings adds London restructuring firepower with senior partner hires

Bevis Metcalfe and Kieran Sharma join from Hogan Lovells Cadwalader and Sidley Austin respectively as US firm rebuilds City restructuring bench

10 Aug 2026

Paul Hastings adds arbitration partner duo in Paris from White & Case

Hires follow 12-lawyer litigation team joining in Paris in 2024 from local boutique

20 Jul 2026

Linklaters raids Paul Weiss for senior New York litigation duo

Boost for US growth ambitions sees FIFA’s top counsel join as chair of the global sports practice

14 Jul 2026

Paul Hastings adds Cahill’s private credit co-leader in New York

Peter Williams’ hire follows Paul Hastings boosting private credit group earlier this year with hires from Cadwalader and Haynes Boone

7 Jul 2026

King & Spalding adds two London partners in as many days

Top 30 US firm continues City growth push with hires from Paul Hastings and Goodwin to build antitrust and corporate real estate offerings

6 May 2026

Paul Hastings hits Covington for PE real estate team in London

Team led by partners Lyndsey Laverack and Jade Williams-Adedeji continues growth push for US firm’s City office

1 May 2026

HSF Kramer adds Paul Hastings M&A partner trio in New York

Robert Leung joins as Americas head of energy, mining and infrastructure alongside Mike Huang and Daniel Grossman

24 Mar 2026

Paul Hastings relaunches in Brussels with King & Spalding partner hire

Salomé Cisnal de Ugarte will chair the Brussels office and spearhead the firm’s EU antitrust expansion

13 Mar 2026

Skadden adds Paul Hastings debt finance partner duo in New York, Chicago

Scott Heard joins in New York to lead Skadden’s private credit practice as Matthew Murphy joins corporate restructuring group in Chicago

12 Mar 2026

Paul Hastings adds London high-yield partner from A&O Shearman

Brad Weyland to help plug gap created when Paul Hastings partner duo exited in February for Sullivan & Cromwell

11 Mar 2026

Slaughter and May M&A partner exits for Paul Hastings in London

Mark Zerdin latest in string of senior hires by US firm as it rebuilds London bench after slew of exits over the past year

24 Feb 2026

Paul Hastings continues to expand London private equity bench with Cooley partner hire

Singapore-based Ferish Patel is relocating to London as part of the move

18 Feb 2026

Sullivan & Cromwell extends London growth with double finance partner hire from Paul Hastings

Patrick Bright and William Needham add expertise in capital markets and restructuring

13 Feb 2026

Paul Hastings boosts London fund practice with Simpson Thacher hire

David Richardson joins as Paul Hastings rebuilds London partnership following slew of departures last year

2 Feb 2026

Paul Hastings hires fund finance teams from Haynes Boone, Cadwalader to open in Charlotte

New partners include Holly Loftis, Aleksandra Kopec, Mark Nesdill and Danyeale Chung

27 Jan 2026

Paul Hastings lands litigation powerhouse from Cravath in New York

Former senior DOJ official John Buretta joins as a partner and litigation department co-head

13 Jan 2026

Paul Hastings adds life sciences regulatory partner duo from Hogan Lovells in Washington DC

Twin partner hire includes Hogan Lovells’ global life sciences co-head Lynn Mehler; move comes ahead of Hogan’s merger with Cadwalader

5 Jan 2026

US firms eye $2.5tr fund finance opportunity amid spate of transatlantic hires

Ben Rigby discusses two key hires in the fund finance world by law firms in London and New York this week

28 Nov 2025