Steve Madden pays £289m in cash to acquire luxury UK brand Kurt Geiger from PE firm Cinven | 1yr
Banking and finance
US firm restocks London finance bench following team exit for King & Spalding last year | 1yr
Matt Miner fills spot left vacant by Tonya Robinson’s departure to Vanguard last year | 1yr
End of partnership with Witara Cakra Advocates means US firm will no longer have an on-the-ground presence in Indonesia | 1yr
Team of 13 lawyers includes co-founders of Gunderson’s Los Angeles arm | 1yr
Move continues break up of London boutique as parent company RBG Holdings prepares to enter administration | 1yr
Nabil Abou-Charaf joins as a partner in Riyadh after almost six years with Morgan Lewis in the UAE | 1yr
Matthew Friendly leaves McDermott after 11 years, taking up his first in-house role | 1yr
Two former Greenberg Traurig shareholders are also joining the new office which will target corporate and finance work | 1yr
Plaintiffs filed 225 lawsuits in total last year, up from 215 in 2023, Cornerstone and Stanford Law School study finds | 1yr
Competition lawyer Paul Johnson joins from Baker McKenzie as structured finance lawyer Dasha Sobornova moves over from Akin | 1yr
New York stalwart promotes heavily in hometown and across alternative investments and energy | 1yr
Roster includes 170 individuals and array of law firms, in-house teams, suppliers and not-for-profits | 1yr
Split comes ahead of Kramer Levin’s planned merger with Herbert Smith Freehills | 1yr
US firm also recruited a leveraged finance partner from Linklaters last month | 1yr
Move follows transatlantic firm’s announcement in September that it was shuttering its Warsaw office | 1yr
Hires follow reports Ropes & Gray has added three partners from CC ahead of Paris launch next year | 1yr
Three made up in London following exit of office managing partner Justin Stock for Akin in the summer | 1yr
Firms boosts banking and finance and executive comp bench hot on the heels of senior exits | 1yr
Firm second in as many days to announce Luxembourg debut with hires from A&O Shearman | 1yr