Law Firm Practice Launch

Cooley launches energy, infrastructure and real estate group with Baker Botts energy co-chair

Mona Dajani joins in New York to lead practice alongside Cooley veteran Michelle Schulman

  • 2mos

Simpson Thacher hires Kirkland partner to head up new capital structure solutions practice

David Nemecek brings vast distressed situations experience; firm plans Dallas opening as part of the new practice launch

  • 4mos

Eversheds relaunches in Ireland with integrated 26-partner practice

New set-up will be part of Eversheds’ International LLP and follows breakdown of affiliated Irish arm’s merger talks with William Fry

  • 10mos

Honigman adds Big Law quartet in Israel, launches investment funds practice

Joiners arrive from Paul Weiss, Simpson Thacher and Pillsbury

  • 1yr

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

  • 1yr

White & Case launches Tokyo disputes practice with Orrick partner hire

Shinsuke Yakura joins having led Orrick’s Tokyo office

  • 1yr

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

  • 2yrs

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

  • 2yrs

Herbert Smith Freehills launches global digital legal delivery practice

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

  • 2yrs

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

  • 2yrs

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

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

  • 2yrs

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”

  • 3yrs

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

  • 3yrs

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

  • 3yrs

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

  • 3yrs
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