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Luxury home furnishings company RH hires CLO from healthcare giant McKesson
Ryan Hassanein will lead the company’s legal and compliance function
Jones Day adds Milbank’s APAC restructuring head in Sydney
Nicholas Dunstone marks Jones Day’s fifth lateral partner hire in Australia this year
Freshfields adds ex-Cravath dealmaker in New York
Keith Hallam joins from White & Case with experience in activism defence and shareholder-engagement matters alongside dealmaking
Legal intelligence start-up Theo Ai appoints former Bristol Myers Squibb GC to board of directors
Sandra Leung appointed to help advance governance and responsible AI direction
HSF Kramer hires Haynes Boone Supreme Court practice head in Washington DC
Daniel Geyser joins as co-head of the firm’s US Supreme Court and appellate litigation practice
Country music singer Carrie Underwood taps Loeb & Loeb for wellness brand launch and fitness app expansion
Loeb assists long-time client Underwood in all aspects of the transaction including brand formation, commercial, IP and strategic partnership issues
Clutch of law firms guide DCC Energy’s $7.7bn takeover by KKR, ECP
Gibson Dunn, Latham & Watkins, Kirkland & Ellis and Cleary guide KKR’s largest public-to-private transaction in Europe in more than a decade alongside Irish firms Matheson, Arthur Cox and William Fry
UK government seeks to rebalance collective actions regime without radical reform
Lawyers broadly support proposals to tighten certification while making funding more certain and improving compensation for consumers
In-house legal departments underestimate how much AI will change their role - Gartner analyst
Corporate legal departments need to reinvent themselves in response to AI, flat and declining budgets and increasing workloads, a Gartner analyst says
Leadership, workforce readiness slowing AI transformation efforts - study
Talent Solutions and Everest Group survey finds only 3% of leaders are highly prepared to manage AI change
LexisNexis posts 10% H1 revenue jump as AI drives growth
AI-enabled products account for around 90% of the value of new sales
Alius Law adds Clyde & Co aviation disputes partner in London
Veteran litigator Richard Mumford becomes latest senior lawyer to exit Clyde & Co
Withers’ profits jump almost 30% as revenue nears £360m
Private client specialist has added on average one billionaire each week as a new client over the past four years
US quantum computing innovator Quantinuum appoints CLO from GitLab
Robin Schulman joins following company’s recent stock market listing
CMS pushes global revenue close to €2.2bn
Firm highlights corporate practice as biggest contributor as topline grows 4.8%