Combination to create top 70 US firm with revenue of $740m and more than 1,300 lawyers | 2mos

Taylor Wessing’s ECVC head joins alongside partners from White & Case and Goodwin Procter | 2mos

Global giant wants at least 20% of UK trainees to come from lower socio-economic backgrounds | 2mos

Reed Smith also called in for sale of OCI’s methanol business alongside McCarthy Tétrault and Loyens & Loeff | 2mos

Nicola Noël joins US firm as a partner from Canadian pension investor PSP Investments | 2mos

Troutman Pepper Locke to have 1,600 lawyers across 33 US and two European offices | 2mos

Consulting arm will also close as UK giant takes ‘difficult but necessary’ step to ‘reshape’ business | 2mos

Debevoise, Cravath and Paul Weiss called in for deal to boost Verizon’s US fibre network | 2mos

Move leaves firm with China bases in Shanghai, Hong Kong | 2mos

Christopher DeCresce was previously vice chair of Paul Hastings’ securities and capital markets practice | 2mos

Corporate partner Ed Barnett takes over leadership of 500-lawyer office | 2mos

Final Magic Circle firm to bump up salaries from £125k amid ongoing salary war | 2mos

Former Quinn Emanuel UK competition co-head joins transatlantic firm alongside Freshfields’ Japan head of disputes | 2mos

Movers include MoFo’s Singapore managing partner Shirin Tang | 2mos

Partners Michael Zollner and Carl Renner join having co-headed Pinsents’ flexi-lawyering arm Vario in Germany | 2mos

Partner Will Summers joins alongside newly-minted of counsel Michael Skouras | 2mos

Anne-Sophie Noury’s arrival follows team exits earlier this year from White & Case to Jones Day and Hogan Lovells | 2mos

Europe, Middle East and Asia business hails fifth consecutive year of growth | 2mos

Jon Dean continues Chicago firm’s Southern California growth push | 2mos

Partners Paul Buitendag and Rena Solomonidis join amid sharp uptick in insolvencies in Australia | 2mos