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CAT approves Mastercard’s £200m class action settlement over credit card fees
Decision follows bid by claim’s funder to scupper deal struck with lead claimant Walter Merricks
Gibson Dunn adds DLA Piper investment funds co-chair in London
James O’Donnell joins alongside of counsel Hannah Watson Fanin as US firm builds on City investment funds practice
Latham elects 19 counsel to partner in latest promotions round
Round follows Los Angeles giant promoting 24 associates to partner in January
Law Society urges UK government to scrap plans to axe funding for solicitor apprenticeships
Concerns mount over impact of apprenticeship reforms on social mobility within the legal profession
Legal AI start-up Luminance, backed by Slaughter and May, raises $75m
Funding round marks one of largest capital raises by pure-play legal AI company in UK and Europe
UPC appeals court steps away from ban on in-house counsel representation
Counsel will only be barred if they have ‘extensive administrative and financial powers’ within a company, court rules
Macfarlanes and Linklaters lead on Ferrari Group’s €785m IPO
Italian-based luxury logistics company sells 25% of founding family shares to fund transaction
Hogan Lovells hires two BCLP partners to strengthen London competition class action team
Hire of Edward Coulson and Andrew Leitch prompted by surge in number of competition claims
Addleshaw Goddard absorbs Linklaters’ Warsaw office
Firm hails addition of 80-lawyer office as ‘milestone’ in international expansion drive
King & Spalding hits Baker McKenzie for Brussels trade duo
Firm restocks Brussels trade bench with partner Arnoud Willems and newly-minted partner Bregt Natens following exits last November
London Court of International Arbitration names new president
Maxi Scherer becomes third woman president in succession, replacing Paula Hodges KC
Travers Smith and Foley & Lardner among firms advising on Steve Madden’s Kurt Geiger acquisition
Steve Madden pays £289m in cash to acquire luxury UK brand Kurt Geiger from PE firm Cinven
Linklaters hires CMA litigation chief in London
Jessica Radke latest in string of senior disputes hires for Magic Circle firm in UK and US
Former ICJ president Joan Donoghue joins Twenty Essex as an arbitrator
Retired American judge took unusual step last year of correcting media reports over controversial ICJ Gaza genocide ruling
A&O Shearman IP teams depart for White & Case and Clifford Chance in London and Paris
Former A&O IP head David Stone joins White & Case in London with two more lawyers as IP partner David Por moves to CC in Paris with a two-lawyer team