Jarryd Anderson joins as head of financial services with federal reserve and deal experience, as bank M&A activity rebounds
Davis Polk and Slaughter and May advise GSK as Ropes & Gray counsels target Nuvalent
M&A and debt finance trio join from MoFo, White & Case and Ropes for Chicago giant’s first Asian office outside Greater China
Group led by three veteran Latham partners significantly expands Paris office Ropes opened last year targeting private capital work
Ropes acts for Gilead as Wilson Sonsini counsels target Arcellx in deal that comes as pharmaceutical groups rush to buy smaller rivals with proven drug pipelines
Incoming team include partners Edouard Chapellier and Jonathan Abensour
Deal understood to be the largest-ever acquisition of a secondaries fund manager
Gretchen Greene appointed chief of artificial intelligence strategy to accelerate the firm’s use of the technology
Dan Oates and Angela Becker to join Akin according to reports, following other senior defections from Ropes’ London PE team this year
Kirkland, Wachtell, Ropes and Sidley advise on largest medical devices deal in almost two decades