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McDermott Will & Schulte hires private credit partner from Kirkland in Paris
Kalish Mullen will lead the Paris office’s finance offering
‘Innovating responsibly means being true to the values of your brand and your consumer’: Coty’s Melanie Nardo
Coty’s GC for commercial and licensing discusses the growing beauty and wellness industry, compliance gaps, responsible innovation and beauty bag must-haves
Retailers score ‘big win’ in latest phase of interchange fees litigation
The Competition Appeal Tribunal held that retailers did not pass on interchange fees to consumers
Stella Legal partners with AI contracting platform Ironclad
Collaboration designed to address gap between technology investment and business outcomes
Upcycling: fashion’s new infringement frontier
A balance between luxury brand rights and upcycling remains elusive, write Bird & Bird’s Cristiana Andreotta, Elisabetta Bandera, Rita Tardiolo, Manon Rieger-Jansen and Nina Dorenbosch
UK Finance & Leasing Association hires ex-KPMG UK legal head as first GC
Jeremy Barton’s appointment comes amid proposed FCA redress scheme to compensate unfairly treated motor finance customers
Doctrine grows European presence with acquisition of Spanish AI platform Maite
Deal marks Paris-based Doctrine’s fourth European acquisition in three years
Paul Hastings continues to expand London private equity bench with Cooley partner hire
Singapore-based Ferish Patel is relocating to London as part of the move
Taylor Wessing makes first post-merger hire with arrival of London IP partner from RPC
Jeremy Drew leaves RPC after two decades, bringing expertise in IP, retail, brands, sport and tech
Carlsberg’s GC to step down after 25 years leading drinks giant’s legal team
Ulrik Andersen will remain as GC until his replacement has been appointed later this year
Two more arbitration partners exit Clyde & Co for Keystone Law
Milena Szuniewicz-Wenzel and Ian Hopkinson follow practice chair Ben Knowles to Keystone
Proskauer hires three-partner PE team in Paris from Hogan Lovells
Team joins ahead of Hogan Lovells’ planned merger with Cadwalader going live at the start of July
Slaughter and May creates digital regulation practice
Firm cites ‘unprecedented’ regulatory complexity for clients as digital regimes in the EU and UK come into effect and are more actively enforced
Sullivan & Cromwell extends London growth with double finance partner hire from Paul Hastings
Patrick Bright and William Needham add expertise in capital markets and restructuring
Clifford Chance, Slaughter and May guide Schroders’ £9.9bn sale to Nuveen
Deal marks largest-ever acquisition of a European fund manager that will create a combined group with $2.5trn of assets under management