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Kirkland hits Goodwin again for US funds lawyers

Four more lawyers join across US as partners after quintet defected from Goodwin in February

Quinn Emanuel and Clifford Chance advise as IBM’s high-stakes court battle with Swiss software company begins

Nine week trial in London’s Technology and Construction Court could impact EU’s Software Directive

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Clifford Chance elects 29 new partners in latest promotions round

Eleven women included in round that sees firm exceed ethnicity targets for third year running

Sony Pictures Entertainment taps Disney for veteran GC replacement

Disney’s deputy GC Jill Ratner will succeed Leah Weil, who is leaving Sony after nearly three decades

Capstone Green Energy names legal chief amid post-bankruptcy rebuilding efforts

Former JAFRA Cosmetics GC Mark Funaki will lead the microturbine-maker’s legal team

Kirkland, Latham shepherd Thoma Bravo’s £4.3bn Darktrace acquisition

Kirkland acts for marquee client Thoma Bravo as Latham counsels UK-listed cyber security company

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Deals | UK

HFW hits Eversheds Sutherland for international arbitration team in Paris

Partners Julien Fouret and Gaëlle Le Quillec join alongside a senior associate

Litigation funding bill to enter committee stage amid ECHR concerns

Retrospective nature of legislation to ensure enforceability of litigation funding agreements faces detailed scrutiny

Saudi Aramco hires former Haleon legal chief as deputy GC

Bjarne Philip Tellmann joins the world’s largest oil producer, where he will oversee global compliance

DLA Piper unveils 63-strong partner promotion round

Trimmed down cohort brings firm closer to goal of 30% female partnership by 2025

Former Clifford Chance arbitration head departs for Twenty Essex

Audley Sheppard KC is latest leading practioner to become an independent arbitrator

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Goodwin swoops on Travers for London private equity partner duo

Ian Keefe and George Weevil latest partners to switch firms as lateral hiring spree across City continues

Teletubbies-owner WildBrain appoints media veteran as next GC


Former Entertainment One GC Mark Trachuk replaces James Bishop, who has joined High Liner Foods

Gateley affiliate Austen Hays launches class action against Grindr, advised by Cooley

High Court Claim alleges misuse of highly sensitive information including about HIV status

Stewarts’ partner count nears treble figures as firm promotes six

Disputes firm caps year of growth with women-majority promotions round

Baker McKenzie hires nine Munger Tolles partners in Los Angeles

Global giant targets West Coast deal work with 17-strong transactional team including two counsel joining as partners

UK Supreme Court refuses Marks & Clerk permission to appeal in secret commissions case

Trial expected next January as judges say appeal bid ‘does not raise an arguable question of law’ over group claims

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News | UK

Jones Day hires finance partner from Baker McKenzie in Australia

Alastair Gourlay joins in Sydney, while London partner Lewis Grimm is heading to Melbourne in August

Paul Hastings opens in Boston with private equity team from Sidley Austin

Sidley’s former private equity co-head, Alexander Temel, joins as global PE co-chair alongside team of lawyers

Ashurst unveils another record promotions round as 30 make partner

Women make up half of internal partner promotions at Anglo Australian firm over five-year rolling average

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