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Around the house: NFL team Buffalo Bills dismisses GC and names interim, UK fusion energy pioneer hires former Rolls Royce counsel
This week’s roundup of top in-house moves also includes appointments at Enbridge, Lyra Therapeutics, Rocket Software and Arival Bank
Paul Hastings adds partners from Cooley, Goodwin in Northern California growth push
Senior PE/M&A partner Scott Joachim and capital markets specialist David Ambler among those moving over in Palo Alto
Weil steers Microsoft through final stage of $69bn Activision Blizzard merger clearance
Global antitrust counsel advised on 17 review processes worldwide to secure largest-ever gaming industry deal
Partners vote through merger to create A&O Shearman
Deal will create transatlantic law firm with revenue of around $3.5bn
BCLP finalises leadership changes
New global department leaders and chief marketing officer named amid wider leadership shuffle
Foley Hoag completes hire of all-female patent team from Cooley
Quartet of patent experts joins recent Cooley hire Amy Baker Mandragouras to boost Foley’s life sciences IP practice
Around the house: Kim Kardashian’s underwear brand gets first GC, Charter Communications replaces retiring GC
This week’s roundup of top in-house moves also includes appointments at Seeker Music, Prove Identity, Metropolitan Commercial Bank and Barton Malow
Davis Polk, Gibson Dunn lead on ExxonMobil $60bn mega merger
Oil giant’s acquisition of Gibson Dunn client Pioneer Natural Resources marks largest transaction so far this year
Kirkland, Latham act in Birkenstock $1.5bn US IPO
Kirkland counsels German shoemaker on New York Stock Echange listing as Latham acts for underwriters
Paul Hastings targets US insurance M&A with trio of partner hires from Sidley Austin, Mayer Brown
M&A and regulatory partners join in New York and Chicago
Monster Energy awarded extra $43m in false advertising dispute with rival
Extra damages brings award to a massive $336m in long-running dispute with Bang energy drink maker
Proskauer makes double litigation hire from MoFo in New York
Duo include first-chair trial veterans Grant Esposito and David Fioccola
Fried Frank names new chair, creates managing partner and vice chair roles
Kenneth Rosh to succeed chair David Greenwald next March following latter’s decade at the helm
Around the house: AIG hires former Stripe CLO, Guardian newspaper’s US arm gets first GC
This week’s roundup of top in-house moves also includes appointments at Africa Oil, Stax Payments, BioMed Realty and Transport for London
Sullivan & Cromwell hangs on to number one spot in global M&A legal advisor rankings
US firm topped ranking by deal value, narrowly ahead of Kirkland & Ellis and Davis Polk & Wardwell, according to Refinitiv
Kirkland & Ellis unveils latest record partner promotions round
Chicago giant promotes 205 to partnership, up from 193 last year
Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling partners start voting on merger approval
Voting will conclude on October 13, with the results announced shortly after
$56m jury verdict upheld against Molson Coors in trademark tussle with craft brewer
Stone Brewing prevails in trademark infringement battle with beer giant
Around the house: LGBTQ social app Grindr hires first GC, ONEOK replaces retired GC with energy industry veteran
This week’s roundup of top in-house moves also includes appointments at PensionBee, Faraday Future, WSFS Bank and Nixon Peabody
Thomson Reuters dispute with AI start-up to go to jury trial in US
Media company accuses AI outfit Ross Intelligence of illegally using its content to train its own competing AI-based platform