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Microsoft and Activision Blizzard turn to Skadden, Simpson Thacher and Weil for $68.7bn takeover
Metaverse-focused deal to make Microsoft third-largest gaming company is expected to attract regulatory scrutiny
Three Crowns gains two partners with London promotion and Paris hire
Leading arbitration boutique promotes Leilah Bruton in London and adds Shaparak Saleh in Paris along with an associate
Goodwin grows Munich presence with private equity partner hire from Reed Smith
Addition of Florian Hirschmann comes less than a year after US firm entered Munich with Sidley Austin hires
Herbert Smith Freehills CEO to co-chair global campaign to boost number of women arbitrators
Diversity and inclusion champion Justin D’Agostino takes leading role at the Pledge as signatories near 5,000
Mishcon’s Hong Kong ally hires five-strong disputes team from leading independent firm
Disputes boutique Karas strengthened as Mishcon presses on with strategy of growing Asia private client capability
Linklaters secures Morgan Lewis partner to launch Singapore funds practice
Addition of Joel Seow follows double partner hire in Hong Kong last month
Elevate celebrates US first as it is granted ownership of its affiliated law firm
In pioneering move Arizona Supreme Court approves non-lawyer ownership of an integrated law firm
Quinn Emanuel to lead £2.3bn class action against Facebook over market dominance
Claim lodged on behalf of 44m UK users over 'unfair' trading terms and prices
Standard Chartered appoints World Bank's Sandie Okoro as general counsel
Diversity and social justice campaigner spent five years as development bank's legal head
Goodwin Procter partner joins Californian legaltech startup as first GC
Sean Greaney advises growth companies across the life cycle and brings in-house experience at Beats by Dre
Weightmans set to merge with fellow UK player RadcliffesLeBrasseur
Consolidated firm will sit in UK top 40 in terms of revenue and be home to more than 225 partners
Allen & Overy hires Norton Rose Fulbright’s EMEA disputes head
UK giant bolsters banking litigation team after recent loss of senior litigator to White & Case
Top 200 US law firm snaps up Dublin litigation and regulatory boutique
Tie-up brings lawyer headcount at Detroit-based Clark Hill's only European office to 26
RPC hires Ashurst's Korea co-head in Hong Kong to set up country desk
UK firm flags 'key strategic hire' as it targets work in world's 12th largest economy
King & Spalding extends East Coast reach with Miami office launch
Atlanta giant appoints tobacco and consumer products trial practice head Randy Bassett as office head