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Paul Hastings adds 11 restructuring and finance partners after mass raid on King & Spalding
Latest team hire sees up to 20 lawyers led by K&S restructuring and finance co-head Jennifer Daly join across US
IP trio join Polsinelli in New York and Denver
Team moves over from Lerner David strengthening medical device practice
US doughnut giant Krispy Kreme hires former Mars lawyer to head legal team
Atiba Adams will replace Catherine Tang as CLO, who announced her exit earlier this year
Wachtell, Kirkland lead on ConocoPhillips’ $22.5bn Marathon Oil acquisition
Wachtell guides ConocoPhillips as Kirkland counsels Marathon in latest energy industry mega deal
Elon Musk’s AI start-up hires former Airbus innovation centre GC as first legal chief
Robert Keele joined xAI earlier this month, Bloomberg reported
Cleary, DLA Piper and Sidley lead on T-Mobile’s $4.4bn buy of US Cellular’s wireless operations
Clifford Chance, Cravath and Washington DC boutique Wilkinson Barker Knauer also act in deal that will bring T-Mobile four million new customers
Paul Weiss adds former General Electric legal chief
Michael Holston joins having worked with Paul Weiss on breakup of GE into separate companies
US real estate company Prologis lines up CLO successor
Deputy GC Deborah Briones will replace three-decade veteran Ed Nektriz
Baker McKenzie hires O’Melveny’s US M&A leader in New York
Tobias Knapp joins as co-head of global firm’s New York transactional group
Making pro bono a core value pays rich dividends
Nura Maznavi outlines Jenner & Block’s ‘all in’ approach to pro bono and advises how firms can increase their commitment
Paul Hastings, Freshfields and Addleshaws lead on Coventry Building Society’s £780m Co-op Bank acquisition
Deal to create lender with £89bn balance sheet and nearly five million customers
Boies Schiller Flexner adds IP litigation trio from Shook Hardy in DC
Three-partner hire bolsters disputes firm’s patent litigation practice in tech sector
US appeals court makes design patents easier to challenge, upending decades-old test
Closely watched decision on assessing obviousness in dispute featuring General Motors dubbed blow to design owners
US optical networking business Infinera names CLO replacement
Regan MacPherson succeeds veteran in-house counsel David Teichmann, who is moving to an advisory role
Complex global M&A deals face increased merger clearance challenges, study finds
Some 43% of cross-border transactions over the past four years failed to close due to regulatory scrutiny
US superyacht services business MarineMax appoints general counsel
Manny Alvare is promoted to GC, having previously run the legal department as VP of legal affairs
Goodwin, Covington shepherd Biogen’s $1.8bn acquisition of rare disease drugmaker
Covington counsels Biogen as Goodwin reps acquisition target Human Immunobiology Biosciences
Latham, Kirkland shepherd CyberArk’s $1.5bn Venafi acquisition
Latham guides CyberArk in acquisition of cybersecurity business from Kirkland-repped Thoma Bravo
Latham recruits life sciences partner duo in DC from Skadden, real estate partner in New York
Former FDA lawyers Jennifer Bragg and William McConagha move over in DC as Safehold CLO Douglas Heitner joins real estate team in New York
Nelson Mullins adds litigation team from London Fischer for new LA office
Product liability group including three partners join across national firm’s second LA office and in New York