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Nexa names new CEO amid wider leadership shuffle
Consultant lawyer platform also names new COO and hires chief marketing officer
UK to join Hague 2019 convention on international enforcement of judgments
Disputes lawyers welcome step as vital post-Brexit measure to protect English law’s status
Comic Relief names Diageo general counsel as new chair
Former Linklaters partner Tom Shropshire to step in on interim basis following Eric Salama’s early retirement
Slaughters seeks out generative AI-focused products for next incubator programme
Magic Circle firm opens applications for fourth round of its Collaborate initiative
Kirkland adds senior tax partner in London from Macfarlanes
Ceinwen Rees second tax lawyer to join Chicago giant in London this month as it restocks after raid by Paul Weiss
BCLP appoints corporate specialist as next UK managing partner
Jinal Shah will take over from senior partner-elect Segun Osuntokun in January
Freshfields and Skadden shepherd eBay-backed Adevinta’s €14bn take private
Wachtell, Clifford Chance and Cleary also among firms called in for one of Europe’s biggest buyouts this year
‘Aspiring for an inclusive culture is a permanent campaign’
IBA’s diversity and inclusion toolkit welcomed as ‘terrific resource’ for committed law firm leaders
Contracting for AI technologies - top five best practices
Organisations must carry out proper due diligence on third-party AI vendors to safeguard against risks, write King & Spalding’s Amy Levin, Nick Maietta and Alexa Delaney Christianson
Trowers set to cut further 25 jobs amid ‘continued slowdown’
UK law firm launches fresh round of job cuts in real estate team after axing 18 lawyer roles last month
Linklaters adds Norton Rose Fulbright partner to launch global risk advisory practice
Jane Caskey joins in London just days after cybersecurity partner duo left NRF for Allen & Overy
Slaughter and May ups NQ pay to £125k
Nine percent pay bump sees Slaughters match Magic Circle rivals
Around the house: Fox Corp names replacement for outgoing legal chief, Campbell’s elevates deputy to GC role
This week’s roundup of top in-house moves also includes appointments at Tegna, Vox Media, Divert and Hipgnosis Song Management
White & Case announces 42-lawyer partner promotion class
Cohort edges down from 46 last year with proportion of women slipping from 52% to 36%
Freshfields, Herbert Smith Freehills steer Mars’ £534m Hotel Chocolat acquisition
Freshfields acts for longtime client Mars as HSF counsels AIM-listed Hotel Chocolat
Allen & Overy hires cybersecurity partner duo in London from Norton Rose Fulbright
NRF lifer Ffion Flockhart joins as global head of cybersecurity alongside partner Charlie Weston-Simons
Understanding the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act
Large firms can potentially be held liable for failing to prevent fraud under the government’s new economic crime legislation, writes Thirdfort’s GC Sam Ruback
UK Supreme Court rules Rwanda asylum policy unlawful
Baker McKenzie, Freshfields and Allen & Overy among firms helping to challenge controversial policy
SRA defends oversight of Axiom Ince and promises review of ‘accumulator firm’ supervision
Regulator says it uncovered ‘sophisticated’ suspected dishonesty including ‘falsified bank statements and letters’
SFO makes seven arrests amid dawn raids in connection with Axiom Ince collapse
More than 80 investigators involved in operation sparked by discovery of £66m hole in client accounts