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Perkins Coie to shutter Beijing base, refocus on Shenzhen
US firm closed its Shanghai office in March
Kennedys opens offices in Los Angeles and Seattle
UK firm continues US expansion after growth push that began with 2017 merger
Tinder-owner Match Group hires former Twitter GC as next CLO
Sean Edgett replaces Jared Sine, who left in February to join GoDaddy
Womble Bond Dickinson and Lewis Roca announce merger
Combination to create top 70 US firm with revenue of $740m and more than 1,300 lawyers
Celltrion avoids injunction at UPC in row over asthma drug
Novartis and Genentech had accused Korean rival of “imminent infringement” through marketing of biosimilar
Cooley boosts London ECVC bench with triple partner hire from US rivals
Taylor Wessing’s ECVC head joins alongside partners from White & Case and Goodwin Procter
Freshfields announces social mobility recruitment target for trainee intake
Global giant wants at least 20% of UK trainees to come from lower socio-economic backgrounds
A&O Shearman, Baker McKenzie score roles on Methanex’s $2.05bn OCI deal
Reed Smith also called in for sale of OCI’s methanol business alongside McCarthy Tétrault and Loyens & Loeff
Weil recruits ex-Goldman Sachs lawyer for London finance team
Nicola Noël joins US firm as a partner from Canadian pension investor PSP Investments
Troutman Pepper, Locke Lord cement $1.6bn merger
Troutman Pepper Locke to have 1,600 lawyers across 33 US and two European offices
A&O Shearman to axe 10% of partnership and close Johannesburg office
Consulting arm will also close as UK giant takes ‘difficult but necessary’ step to ‘reshape’ business
Wall Street stalwarts score lead roles on Verizon’s $20bn Frontier acquisition
Debevoise, Cravath and Paul Weiss called in for deal to boost Verizon’s US fibre network
Panodil-maker Perrigo hires Haleon interim GC as legal head
Charles Atkinson to replace Todd Kingma, who retires from Perrigo for a second time
White & Case launches Tokyo disputes practice with Orrick partner hire
Shinsuke Yakura joins having led Orrick’s Tokyo office
Major win for publishers in US ebook lending case
Internet Archive had been sued for infringing copyright by making digital copies of print books
IBA voices ‘great concern’ over Mexico’s ‘far-reaching’ judicial reform proposals
IBA president Almudena Arpón de Mendívil Aldama says the plans would likely impact judicial independence
Reed Smith latest US firm to reduce China footprint with Beijing closure
Move leaves firm with China bases in Shanghai, Hong Kong
US real estate group Amherst hires Lendlease Americas’ GC as legal head
Peter Campbell takes over the GC role from Gabriel Steffens
Freshfields recruits senior capital markets partner in New York from Paul Hastings
Christopher DeCresce was previously vice chair of Paul Hastings’ securities and capital markets practice
Latham names successor to London managing partner Kensell
Corporate partner Ed Barnett takes over leadership of 500-lawyer office
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