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Allied Universal names next legal head as former GC retires
Loretta Cecil will replace David Buckman later this month
Kirkland, Latham lead on Champion’s $1.2bn sale to Authentic Brands
Kirkland acts for seller HanesBrands alongside Jones Day as Latham counsels Authentic
SoFi taps JPMorgan for GC hire as long-time legal head steps down
Stephen Simcock will replace Rob Lavet, who is retiring and moving to a director role
Latham, Orrick lead on SAP’s $1.5bn WalkMe acquisition
Israeli firms Meitar and Gornitzky & Co called in on deal to buy Israeli-founded SaaS company
TikTok parent ByteDance names former Warner Bros. legal chief as new GC
John Rogovin replaces Erich Anderson, who moves to a special counsel role amid a potential US ban on TikTok
Polsinelli adds second office in Utah’s Silicon Slopes
Firm becomes first in Am Law 100 to set up shop in wealthy resort town of Park City
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