Rainmaker Graham Robinson joins with two more partners and around 15 associates
Chicago giant continues litigation hiring spree as mass torts and product liability team joins across US
Team’s exit for Thomson Geer result of Ashurst scaling back work for Australian government
George Knighton returns after just under six years at US rival in the capital
Duncan Bagshaw brings expertise in energy and Africa-related disputes
Incoming team is led by partners Sindhura Swaminathan and Olivier Le Bars
A&O Shearman’s joint Singapore managing partner Tim Beech moves over with newly-minted partner Regina Lui and an associate to boost US firm’s global corporate trust team
Firm has hired seven partners into the practice across Abu Dhabi, Paris and London since 1 April, six of them from White & Case
Legacy Shearman & Sterling’s London tax head Simon Letherman joins as corporate finance specialist Lerika Le Grange moves over from Taylor Wessing
Hires comes as Akin plans Chicago office launch, according to sources with knowledge of the matter
US firm continues rapid London buildout with Tom Levine and Nick Charlwood
Firm doubles down on European expansion strategy with new offices in Warsaw and Krakow staffed with team hired from Polish boutiques
Paris-based group strengthens the firm’s pan-European patent law offering
Hires include A&O Shearman’s US head of financial services regulatory, a finance partner, two counsel and five associates
Cornelius Grossmann to spearhead firm’s efforts to deploy technology as global head of solutions development