Draft agreement will promote cross-border legal services, claims UK government, and smooth path to Trans-Pacific Partnership membership | 3d

Robert Shooter to begin next May following end of Michael Chissick’s decade in the role | 4d

UK Magic Circle firm signs up as strategic partner for European leg of Vision Fund Emerge 2021 programme | 5d

Federico Fruhbeck to serve as Gibson Dunn’s Europe head of private equity and comes aboard with Vinson partner Robert Dixon and counsel Alice Brogi | 6d

Royds Withy King and Goodman Derrick merger plan to create firm with revenue in excess of £50m | 1w

Clifford Chance's head of internal comms on his experience moving to the legal sector after working for industrial giants including Philips | 1w

Jane Cheong Tung Sing joins as partnership GC and company secretary after 25 years at Clifford Chance | 1w

Top 20 US firm continues rapid growth in London as partners depart UK firm ahead of its planned flotation | 1w

ULS Technology has purchased Amity Law for an undisclosed sum | 1w

Vincent Bergin and Keir MacLennan join the Chicago firm as it announces plans to move to new building at 40 Leadenhall Street | 1w

Lawyer whose career bridged law firms, chambers and academia is remembered for inspiring 'multiple generations' | 1w

Peter Clough will take up the mantle next January after Saul completes second term | 1w

More than half of the New York firm's latest promotions were made across its EMEA offices | 2w

Group includes all five partners in highly rated fraud defence and business disputes team | 2w

Allen & Overy and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer make up quartet of firms acting in club’s sale to Saudi-led investment group | 2w

Dentons, NRF and Linklaters among those taking part in novel initiative to speed development of legal ops talent | 2w

Ross Allardice, Mark Evans and Tony Brown re-join the firm from US rival Dechert amid a global private equity-backed M&A activity boom | 2w

New arrivals join 18-strong founding member team put together by London arbitration community figurehead Owen Lawrence in July | 2w