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UK insurance firm also added Clydes’ former Australia managing partner alongside 12-strong team in Sydney last December | 2yrs

Conference starts today (3 June) and will feature headliners including Lady Chief Justice Carr and ICSID’s Meg Kinnear | 2yrs

Atiba Adams will replace Catherine Tang as CLO, who announced her exit earlier this year | 2yrs

Shane Gleghorn has overseen revenue growth of nearly £140m since taking the helm in 2018 | 2yrs

Transatlantic firm equals Clifford Chance, Linklaters and Freshfields but still lags US firms at the top of the market | 2yrs

Herbert Smith Freehills lawyers Sebastian Moore, Frederic Chevallier and Rachel Montagnon look back on the Unified Patent Court’s maiden year | 2yrs

Regulator says proposed payment increases down to sharp rise in interventions | 2yrs

Janet Hood, a Scottish licensing specialist, died suddenly last week | 2yrs

Wachtell guides ConocoPhillips as Kirkland counsels Marathon in latest energy industry mega deal | 2yrs

Five percent increase puts UK firm ahead of rivals including Addleshaw Goddard, Eversheds Sutherland and Bird & Bird | 2yrs

Robert Keele joined xAI earlier this month, Bloomberg reported | 2yrs

Laurence Shore will join the London disputes specialist in September | 2yrs

Clifford Chance, Cravath and Washington DC boutique Wilkinson Barker Knauer also act in deal that will bring T-Mobile four million new customers | 2yrs

Patent holding company Sun Patent Trust is asking the Paris Judicial Court to determine a global FRAND rate, while India will examine infringement | 2yrs

Michael Holston joins having worked with Paul Weiss on breakup of GE into separate companies | 2yrs

Firm matches Magic Circle rivals Freshfields and Linklaters but still lags market-topping £180k at Gibson Dunn and Quinn Emanuel | 2yrs

Decision upholds earlier ruling revoking patent covering the drug Xarelto, further clearing way for generic manufacturers to enter the lucrative market | 2yrs

Report commissioned by Legal Services Board reveals that funders back 3-5% of potential cases | 2yrs

Deputy GC Deborah Briones will replace three-decade veteran Ed Nektriz | 2yrs