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Sony Pictures Entertainment taps Disney for veteran GC replacement
Disney’s deputy GC Jill Ratner will succeed Leah Weil, who is leaving Sony after nearly three decades
Best practices for AI change management in legal technology
Integrating AI into everyday working life for lawyers means firms and in-house teams need to adopt a comprehensive change management programme, writes Litera’s Adam Ryan
Kirkland, Latham shepherd Thoma Bravo’s £4.3bn Darktrace acquisition
Kirkland acts for marquee client Thoma Bravo as Latham counsels UK-listed cyber security company
Capstone Green Energy names legal chief amid post-bankruptcy rebuilding efforts
Former JAFRA Cosmetics GC Mark Funaki will lead the microturbine-maker’s legal team
DLA Piper unveils 63-strong partner promotion round
Trimmed down cohort brings firm closer to goal of 30% female partnership by 2025
Teletubbies-owner WildBrain appoints media veteran as next GC
Former Entertainment One GC Mark Trachuk replaces James Bishop, who has joined High Liner Foods
Baker McKenzie hires nine Munger Tolles partners in Los Angeles
Global giant targets West Coast deal work with 17-strong transactional team including two counsel joining as partners
Uncertainty follows SEC stay of contested climate disclosure rule
Legal challenges and US elections could determine timing and scope of climate-related disclosure requirements, write Debevoise lawyers Ulysses Smith and Isabelle Glimcher
Paul Hastings opens in Boston with private equity team from Sidley Austin
Sidley’s former private equity co-head, Alexander Temel, joins as global PE co-chair alongside team of lawyers
Foley & Lardner hires IP duo strengthening high-tech capabilities
Ngai Zhang and Drew Schulte move over from Perkins Coie to the AmLaw 100 firm as it seeks to bolster its innovative technology capabilities
Reed Smith, Shoosmiths lead on Concord’s £1.1bn Hipgnosis takeover
DLA Piper and Latham also called in for deal to save embattled song fund
Troutman Pepper, Locke Lord in merger talks to create $1.6bn firm
Combination would create top 30 US firm with more than 1,700 lawyers
Norton Rose Fulbright grows revenue 8.3% to $2.26bn
PEP soars by 32.7% as equity partner ranks shrink by more than 100 lawyers
Orthofix names CLO replacement following trio of executive dismissals last year
Andres Cedron joins from Stryker Corporation, replacing ousted legal chief Patrick Keran
The Global Legal Post launches international comparative guide to cryptoassets
Edited by Brown Rudnick partners Jane Colston and Jessica Lee, online resource outlines emerging legal frameworks for cryptoassets