Partner Maurice Thompson rejoins with three lawyers to lead HFW’s global litigation funding team | 10mos

Practice head Tobie Jordaan moves over alongside three more partners and a pair of associates | 10mos

Former chair of UK firm’s global marine practice group also fined for due diligence failures unearthed in 2018 | 10mos

Top M&A firms instructed on latest multibillion-dollar energy industry deal, with Wachtell Lipton also called in | 10mos

Law firms undergo ‘sorting out’ as transactional work declines and clients shift work down market, according to new research by Thomson Reuters and Georgetown Law | 10mos

‘Material’ one-off success fee drives eye-catching results as profit soars 60% | 10mos

Freshfields and Covington also advise on deal highlighting increased appetite for big ticket deals after slump in 2023 | 10mos

UK firm hails move as “major step” in 10-year growth strategy | 10mos

Akin’s US PE and M&A head David D’Urso joins alongside Elazar Guttman | 10mos

Victor Nuñez joins in New York having earlier been global CFO at Norton Rose Fulbright | 10mos

UK firm hails 'transformational step' in US growth strategy as rainmaker George Casey joins as global co-chair of corporate alongside five more lawyers | 10mos

M&A rankings leader Kirkland advises target Callon as energy sector consolidation continues apace | 10mos

Taurie Zeitzer joins to co-head PE industry group having co-chaired Paul Weiss’s M&A practice | 10mos

Proportion of women falls from 60% in 2022 to 43% in round that sees US once again dominate | 10mos

Deal value fell 17% in 2023 to $2.9trn with volume down 6% to 55,200 | 10mos

Akin’s round sees women again dominate as K&L Gates’ shrinks from last year’s 40-strong cohort | 10mos

Energy specialist Sarah McLean joins ahead of Shearman’s merger with Allen & Overy | 10mos

Pierson Ferdinand among largest law firm debuts in US history | 10mos

Neill Blundell joins having led Macfarlanes’ corporate crime and investigations practice | 11mos

Team joins Clydes’ former Australia managing partner, Lucinda Lyons, at new firm | 11mos