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AI workforce training platform Skillsoft names former Pegasystems GC as CLO
Matthew Cushing replaces interim legal chief Scott Semel
Brown Rudnick hires 34-lawyer IP litigation team from HSF Kramer, opens in Silicon Valley
US firm’s biggest-ever team hire sees group led by seven partners join across Silicon Valley and New York
ArentFox Schiff opens in Silicon Valley with Reed Smith trademark team
US firm points to ambition to grow corporate and real estate offering alongside IP in new office as it takes on team of around 10 attorneys and paralegals
US AI-powered IP governance start-up CopySight raises $3m in seed round
Financing led by Mucker Capital to expand its technology into commercial video production
Wachtell, Debevoise guide Prysmian’s $3.8bn Atkore buy in US electrical push
Wachtell acts for Italy’s Prysmian, the world’s biggest cablemaker, as it bets on AI-driven infrastructure demand with buy of Debevoise-repped electrical products-maker Atkore
Squire Patton Boggs refreshes US regional leadership
Firm makes four office leadership changes, with its global environmental, safety and health practice also getting a new US leader
Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan invest in Harvey
Legal AI specialist says ‘marquee investors’ will support ‘next stage of growth’
Luxury home furnishings company RH hires CLO from healthcare giant McKesson
Ryan Hassanein will lead the company’s legal and compliance function
Freshfields adds ex-Cravath dealmaker in New York
Keith Hallam joins from White & Case with experience in activism defence and shareholder-engagement matters alongside dealmaking
Legal intelligence start-up Theo Ai appoints former Bristol Myers Squibb GC to board of directors
Sandra Leung appointed to help advance governance and responsible AI direction
HSF Kramer hires Haynes Boone Supreme Court practice head in Washington DC
Daniel Geyser joins as co-head of the firm’s US Supreme Court and appellate litigation practice
Country music singer Carrie Underwood taps Loeb & Loeb for wellness brand launch and fitness app expansion
Loeb assists long-time client Underwood in all aspects of the transaction including brand formation, commercial, IP and strategic partnership issues
Clutch of law firms guide DCC Energy’s $7.7bn takeover by KKR, ECP
Gibson Dunn, Latham & Watkins, Kirkland & Ellis and Cleary guide KKR’s largest public-to-private transaction in Europe in more than a decade alongside Irish firms Matheson, Arthur Cox and William Fry
Leadership, workforce readiness slowing AI transformation efforts - study
Talent Solutions and Everest Group survey finds only 3% of leaders are highly prepared to manage AI change
Withers’ profits jump almost 30% as revenue nears £360m
Private client specialist has added on average one billionaire each week as a new client over the past four years