Law Firm Practice Launch

Baker McKenzie's Korea JV law firm recruits team to launch tax practice

Principal John Kwak joins from Korea Big Six firm Kim & Chang with two more tax specialists

White & Case launches Tokyo disputes practice with Orrick partner hire

Shinsuke Yakura joins having led Orrick’s Tokyo office

Sullivan & Cromwell eyes artificial intelligence growth with new practice launch

New AI practice will be co-led by partners Nader Mousavi, Mehdi Ansari and Presley Warner

Paul Weiss launches Latin America practice with corporate hire from Willkie Farr

M&A partner Maria-Leticia Ossa Daza joins in New York having founded and led Willkie’s LatAm practice

Herbert Smith Freehills launches global digital legal delivery practice

Four hundred-strong practice brings together alternative legal services and tech teams

Linklaters adds Norton Rose Fulbright partner to launch global risk advisory practice

Jane Caskey joins in London just days after cybersecurity partner duo left NRF for Allen & Overy

‘A natural move for us’ – Gateley launches collective actions practice

Listed UK law firm appoints two partners from claimant firm Slater & Gordon

Van Bael & Bellis launches London international trade team with hires from Crowell & Moring, Ashurst

Brussels-based independent launches new practice amid “unprecedented growth in EU and UK sanctions and export control legislation”

Emerging markets boutique launches arbitration practice with partner hires in London and Paris

Projects and energy specialist Trinity International cites demand from clients caught up in disputes

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MoFo targets London contentious IP work with four-strong team hire from Brown Rudnick

Team's arrival comes hard on heels of acquisition of West Coast IP boutique Durie Tangri

Gide Loyrette Nouel adds seven-strong team in Paris from Shearman & Sterling

Partners Sami Toutounji and Françoise Even arrive with their team to establish employee shareholding practice

Adams and Reese launches practice dedicated to historically black colleges

Am Law 200 firm's new practice to advise on matters including government relations and federal funding

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Herbert Smith Freehills opens construction and infrastructure hub in Malaysia

Partner Craig Shepherd will lead hub from firm’s existing Kuala Lumpur office

Willkie launches capital markets practice in Frankfurt with double partner hire from McDermott

Arrival of Simon Weiss and Joseph Marx brings US firm's lawyer headcount in Germany to 54

Allen & Overy adds transactional offering in South Africa with double partner hire from Werksmans

Brian Price and Ze’ev Blieden join the UK firm in Johannesburg as it bets on booming global M&A landscape

Osborne Clarke hires 30 lawyers from Polish firms for Warsaw launch

Move will help Polish clients navigate the changing business landscape amid Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine, Osborne Clarke CEO said

De Berti Jacchia becomes first Italian firm to partner with global ESG standards body

Milan practice signs up to Global Reporting Initiative as part of wider sustainability drive

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Linklaters secures Morgan Lewis partner to launch Singapore funds practice

Addition of Joel Seow follows double partner hire in Hong Kong last month

Withers hires partners from Pillsbury and BCLP to boost Southeast Asia reach

Private client powerhouse also signs real estate partner in London and promotes four lawyers to partner

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