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‘Setting the tone at the highest level’: IBA honours human rights and pro bono award winners
Ceremony in Toronto recognised achievements by lawyers from Singapore and Egypt, while a Nigerian lawyer won the IBA Outstanding Young Lawyer Award
Willkie promotes 30 to partner in London-heavy round
Seven London promotions boosts Willkie’s partner bench in the city by 25%
‘It’s a scale game now’: Ashurst has finally ended its decades-long search for a willing US merger partner
Victoria Basham assesses the prospects of the third substantial transatlantic law firm merger deal to be unveiled in less than three years
Biopharma research business Fortrea hires veteran in-house pharma counsel as GC
Agnieszka Gallagher succeeds Stillman Hanson, who is leaving the company
Wellness franchisor Xponential Fitness hires legal chief from European Wax Center
Gavin O’Connor brought in to replace CLO Andrew Hagopian
Ashurst and Perkins Coie announce landmark $2.7bn transatlantic merger
Tie-up to create top 20 global law firm by revenue with more than 3,000 lawyers
Gibson Dunn, Cooley advise on Merck’s $9.2bn purchase of flu drug-maker Cidara
Gibson Dunn also advised Merck on its $10bn acquisition of Verona Pharma earlier this year
Withers adds art lawyer and historian to newly formed US art and advisory team
Frank Lord joins as senior counsel, alongside contemporary art expert Sarina Taylor, who joins as an associate
US relocation services business Sirva hires CWT legal chief as CLO
Lauren Aste is replacing GC Jeff Margolis
Paul Hastings, Jones Day and Eversheds advise on Parker’s acquisition of Filtration Group
Parker Hannifin agrees to pay $9.25bn for the filtration tech innovator
McDermott considers tapping private equity investment
Firm explores restructuring to meet ethics rules that could set precedent in US
IBA Toronto 2025: Global institutions push back on Trump’s rule of law assault
Organisations such as NATO and the Council of Europe are stepping in as the Trump administration attempts to upend the norms of international justice, argue panellists at the International Bar Association's annual conference
IBA Toronto 2025: Trump presents ‘intolerable risk’ to US democracy
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bob Woodward, who helped uncover the Watergate scandal, accuses President Trump of "shredding the rule of law" in far-ranging discussion at the IBA's annual conference in Toronto
Cozen O’Connor grows in Midwest through merger with 50-lawyer Minneapolis firm
Tie-up with Moss & Barnett a “major step” in Cozen’s plan to expand transactional and commercial practices across key Midwest markets
AI takes over from talent attraction as legal profession’s top priority, research finds
New report to be published tomorrow at the International Bar Association’s annual conference also highlights growing challenges of political uncertainty and threats to judicial independence