Steve Madden pays £289m in cash to acquire luxury UK brand Kurt Geiger from PE firm Cinven | 4mos

US firm snaps up team with expertise in life sciences and technology space | 5mos

West Country firm Stephens Scown scores notable win for independent brewery as discount supermarket found to have taken unfair advantage of Thatchers' trademark | 5mos

First outright rejection of certification effectively tightens UK’s class action regime putting spotlight on independence of class representatives | 5mos

Misclassification lawsuits continue to be trendy in the fashion industry; Morrison Cohen lawyers Keith Markel, Alana Mildner Smolow and Kayla West discuss ways for retail employers to ensure compliance with ever-changing US overtime laws | 6mos

Sunny Singh returns to co-chair top-tier practice following Ray Schrock’s exit last month | 6mos

Results show EU Commission’s security initiative is having success in tackling counterfeits | 6mos

Gibson hails record musical instrument seizure following successful joint operation led by US Customs and Border Protection | 7mos

Case heard in the UK High Court provides important guidance on emerging doctrine over position marks | 7mos

Merged firm to house 230 professionals and operate under Venner Shipley name | 7mos

Deborah Kirk latest in string of partner departures from Latham’s City office | 8mos

Reimaging retail for neurodiverse shoppers is catching on, writes Bird & Bird’s Nicola Conway. Will luxury learn these lessons? | 8mos

From understanding your sales channels to setting up monitoring services, Freeths experts Simon Barker and Fiona Lawson offer practical brand protection advice to keep your key assets away from fakers | 8mos

Slaughters, Cravath, Bakers and Latham among firms acting on long-awaited offloading of online luxury retailer | 9mos

Tie-up to create firm with revenues of $810m and more than 1,000 lawyers | 9mos

Nickolas Bogdanovich joins after Cleary M&A partner James Langston defected to Paul Weiss in May | 10mos

Amy Tu will succeed Don Liu, who announced his retirement earlier this year | 10mos

UK independent rebounds from FY23’s flat numbers as revenue pushes past £200m | 11mos

Foley international trade lawyer Marcos Carrasco-Menchaca explains the IP rights rules for payments due on products imported into Mexico | 11mos