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Ropes & Gray’s IP litigation chair takes 20-lawyer team to Sheppard Mullin
Group joins across US and in Seoul as Sheppard Mullin moves to build preeminent IP practice
US gym franchise Crunch Fitness hires first GC from Restore Hyper Wellness
Company previously used AJB Law Group for legal counsel
Ropes & Gray hits Kirkland for M&A partner in New York growth push
Michael Brueck joins after 15 years as a partner at Kirkland where he led on deals for Danaher, GLP and Evercore
Microsoft promotes GC to CLO role as legal chief steps down
Jonathan Palmer is replacing Hossein Nowbar, who is exiting after two years in the role
Willkie names private equity leader as new joint chair
Jeffrey Poss to succeed longtime chair Thomas Cerabino at the start of 2027
Orrick, DLA Piper guide Workday’s $1.1bn acquisition of AI firm Sana
Orrick acts for buyer in second deal in a month as HR software consolidation heats up
Proskauer adds Cadwalader finance partner quartet for Charlotte debut
Cadwalader’s leveraged finance head, Ron Lovelace, joins with team to open office in second-largest financial centre in US
Cooley partner Ethan Glass joins key client Compass as its next legal head
Glass has been representing residential real estate broker in high-profile dispute with Northwest Multiple Listing Service
Kirkland, Freshfields called in for drugmaker Zentiva’s €4.1bn sale to GTCR
Kirkland advises buyer as Freshfields guides seller Advent
Arrowhead strikes back at Ionis in patent infringement dispute over competing products
Calls Ionis’ claims “baseless” in legal battle at the US courts
Davis Polk, Latham in for Klarna’s $1.4bn IPO as US listings rebound
Davis Polk guides Swedish fintech company’s much-anticipated listing on NYSE as Latham counsels underwriters
US chemicals business Huntsman lines up ChampionX GC as next legal head
Julia Wright joins next month to replace David Stryker, who is retiring
Morgan Lewis secures trio of West Coast patent partners from Knobbe Martens
Arrival of second team to defect from Knobbe Martens in 2025 boosts tally of IP lateral partner hires to 11
Orrick hits Cadwalader for eight-partner finance team in London and US
Top-ranking team to enable firm to capitalise on convergence of CLOs and private credit
Latham, Jones Day called in for Cadence’s €2.7bn Hexagon unit buy
Latham acts for Cadence in acquisition of design and engineering business as Jones Day guides seller
Ex-assistant to solicitor general returns to Paul Weiss in Washington DC
Appellate litigator Masha Hansford rejoins firm following wave of litigation defections in wake of Trump deal
US asset manager Vanguard taps Principal Financial Group for next legal chief
Natalie Lamarque is replacing Tonya Robinson, who joined the company in October last year
Akin opens in Chicago with four partners recruited from Mayer Brown
Launch of 18th office follows hire of real estate funds and infrastructure M&A team in May
MoFo helps NeoGenomics secure cancer test kit patent infringement win against rival Natera
Ruling paves the way for NeoGenomics, advised by Quinn Emanuel, to commercialise its RaDaR test
DWF and DLA Piper UK called in for SMG Capital’s $50m acquisition of Fabergé
Tech entrepreneur Sergei Mosunov’s SMG Capital plans to increase Fabergé’s international presence and invest in its African mining operations