North America/US
Troutman Pepper, Locke Lord cement $1.6bn merger
Troutman Pepper Locke to have 1,600 lawyers across 33 US and two European offices
Wall Street stalwarts score lead roles on Verizon's $20bn Frontier acquisition
Debevoise, Cravath and Paul Weiss called in for deal to boost Verizon's US fibre network
Panodil-maker Perrigo hires Haleon interim GC as legal head
Charles Atkinson to replace Todd Kingma, who retires from Perrigo for a second time
Major win for publishers in US ebook lending case
Internet Archive had been sued for infringing copyright by making digital copies of print books
US real estate group Amherst hires Lendlease Americas’ GC as legal head
Peter Campbell takes over the GC role from Gabriel Steffens
Freshfields recruits senior capital markets partner in New York from Paul Hastings
Christopher DeCresce was previously vice chair of Paul Hastings’ securities and capital markets practice
‘The big opportunity with GenAI is the holy grail of all marketing: one-to-one client engagement at scale’
MyMai’s Michael Idinopulos discusses how law firms and business development teams can use AI to increase opportunity generation
FedEx promotes 30-year in-house regulatory affairs veteran to become next GC
Gina Adams, who has been with FedEx since 1992, will replace retiring Mark Allen
Former ICSID secretary general launches disputes boutique with Steptoe veteran
Meg Kinnear joins forces with former Steptoe & Johnson partner Lucinda Low for new DC firm
King & Spalding, NRF navigate $500m financing for Abercrombie & Kent
Facility underwritten by Citi will assist expansion of A&K, including that of Crystal Cruises
US chip-maker Credo replaces CLO for second time this year with Automation Anywhere hire
Jim Laufman replaces Kate Schuelke, who only joined from Seagate in January
Sidley recruits McDermott’s Los Angeles litigation team head
Jon Dean continues Chicago firm’s Southern California growth push
IMF announces departure of its first woman GC as hunt for replacement begins
Long-time IMF lawyer Rhoda Weeks-Brown will retire at the end of September
Judge reverses copyright infringement verdict against Disney over special effects in Beauty and the Beast
Jury’s award for vicarious infringement over contractor’s use of software overturned by judge
Firms asked to help trainees stranded by ‘imminent closure’ of US firm’s London office
City of London Law Society writes to firms as it seeks homes for six current and four future trainees of Armstrong Teasdale
US law firms ring in strong performance in first half
Top 50 firms fuelled average 11.4% rise in revenue according to Wells Fargo report
Paul Weiss hires rising M&A star from Cleary in New York
Nickolas Bogdanovich joins after Cleary M&A partner James Langston defected to Paul Weiss in May
Luxury Law’s summer reading suggestions
As the summer season winds down, members of our Luxury Law Alliance Advisory Board recommend some of their most recent reads
Crash Champions hires former GEICO legal head as new CLO
Seth Ingall, who left GEICO earlier this year after nearly 40 years, replaces Paul Ruiter
Willkie hires 11-strong team from Mayer Brown in Chicago
Grouping includes capital markets co-head Edward Best and three other partners
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