Gibson Dunn has hired two White & Case real estate partners in London as the US firm continues to build out its practice ...

FTSE 250 industrials group Bodycote agreed a £1.8 billion takeover by US private equity firm Veritas, while London buyout firm Epiris has struck a £1.1 billion deal for communications provider Gamma ...

King & Spalding has continued its international disputes hiring spree, adding Quinn Emanuel’s Paris managing partner Thomas Voisin.

Sidley Austin has overhauled its London training contract, making a four-month AI seat compulsory for every trainee. The US firm says it is the first in the City to build a dedicated AI rotation into ...

King & Spalding is an Atlanta-founded US law firm with more than 1,300 lawyers across 26 offices. It traces its history to 1885 and opened in London in 2003, with practices spanning M&A, private ...

Paul Weiss has hired 25-year Freshfields veteran Mandeep Lotay to lead its European structured finance and securitisation practice. Lotay will be the US firm’s first dedicated structured finance ...

Linklaters has hired Johnson & Johnson global litigation head Erik Haas as a partner in New York. The move follows Linklaters’ hire of a five-lawyer disputes team from Paul Weiss earlier this year.

Former Pogust Goodhead lawyers say they have taken over the £36bn Mariana dam litigation after a claimant committee voted to appoint Bailey Glasser International. Pogust Goodhead disputes the ...

Lawfront has appointed former esure boss Peter Martin-Simon as CEO, replacing the retiring Neil Lloyd. The Blixt-backed group has grown to around £170 million revenue after acquiring 16 law firms ...

AGRD has acquired Setterwalls’ 100-person Malmö office in its biggest deal since launching in 2025. It is the PE-backed group’s 11th acquisition and fifth this year, taking combined revenue to around ...

Latham has hired senior Freshfields partners Grace Huang and Edward Freeman in Hong Kong, alongside counsel Cindy Kwong. The hires comes as Hong Kong’s IPO market booms and follows two Freshfields M&A ...