Daniel Abowd returns to company after three-year hiatus, including spell at the US litigation heavyweight
Simon Skinner joins having earlier led Travers’ tax team
Producers had opposed registration of two trademarks in long running dispute with Fontana Food
US firm closed its Shanghai office in March
UK firm continues US expansion after growth push that began with 2017 merger
Sean Edgett replaces Jared Sine, who left in February to join GoDaddy
Combination to create top 70 US firm with revenue of $740m and more than 1,300 lawyers
Novartis and Genentech had accused Korean rival of “imminent infringement” through marketing of biosimilar
Taylor Wessing’s ECVC head joins alongside partners from White & Case and Goodwin Procter
Global giant wants at least 20% of UK trainees to come from lower socio-economic backgrounds
Reed Smith also called in for sale of OCI’s methanol business alongside McCarthy Tétrault and Loyens & Loeff
Nicola Noël joins US firm as a partner from Canadian pension investor PSP Investments
Troutman Pepper Locke to have 1,600 lawyers across 33 US and two European offices
Consulting arm will also close as UK giant takes ‘difficult but necessary’ step to ‘reshape’ business
Debevoise, Cravath and Paul Weiss called in for deal to boost Verizon’s US fibre network