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UK top 100 firm in merger talks with City player

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

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'Law firms are to my delight and to my inspiration very different animals'

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

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John Lewis hires Clifford Chance real estate co-head as GC in newly created role

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

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Greenberg Traurig signs up highly rated six-partner Mishcon fraud and business disputes team

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

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Listed tech startup acquires conveyancing firm to test products

ULS Technology has purchased Amity Law for an undisclosed sum

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Kirkland hires Freshfields private equity duo, unveils relocation plans for London base

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

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‘A giant of international arbitration’ - tributes flood in for Professor J Martin Hunter

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

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Osborne Clarke announces new senior partner to replace veteran Andrew Saul

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

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White & Case promotes largest partner class ever in EMEA-focused round

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

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Eight disputes partners to leave Mishcon de Reya ahead of planned IPO

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

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Dentons and Reed Smith join Magic Circle duo for controversial £305m Newcastle United takeover

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

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Raft of leading firms join forces to launch legal ops training programme

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

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White & Case makes triple hire from Dechert to boost London private equity team

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

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Arbitration services group Arbitra expands team with six new members

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

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Partners Group global head of legal departs to be Swiss impact investor’s first GC

Anela Musat joins Blue Horizon with mandate to build a ‘best in class’ legal team

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Pinsent Masons mourns death of Hong Kong head and veteran partner Vincent Connor

Connor, who passed away on 5 October after a period of illness, was 'unfailingly kind, funny and ever thoughtful of others'

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Former Addleshaws partner trio reunite to launch disputes-only boutique in London

Quillon Law will focus on international commercial and financial markets ‘without the conflicts associated with larger law firms’

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Top antitrust team heads to Willkie Farr from Quinn Emanuel in London

Quinn’s UK competition litigation practice co-lead among group of partners and associates making the move

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‘An underappreciated asset’ – beefed-up body LegalUK quantifies economic value of English law for first time

Judiciary-backed group relaunches with heavyweight report funded by firms including Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance, DLA Piper and Herbert Smith Freehills

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