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Jenner & Block names new co-managing partner

DC partner Ishan Bhabha to succeed Katya Jestin at the start of next year

London’s 9 Stone Buildings dissolves as members join Tanfield and Selborne Chambers

Seventeen tenants move their practice as London barristers’ chambers closes after more than a century

Pump Court Chambers suffers multi-million pound alleged fraud loss

High Court judgment reveals £2.75m alleged fraud committed by former employee in set’s credit control department

Boies Schiller Flexner makes twin partner hire in New York and Washington

Peter Skinner returns from MoFo to co-lead investigations practice, while Andrew Smith joins from Holland & Knight

Clifford Chance adds top flight restructuring partner in Munich

Kolja von Bismarck reunites with two other ex-Sidley Austin restructuring partners that joined CC in Germany in June

IMF appoints only second woman legal head in 80 years as deputy promoted to GC

Yan Liu will replace Rhoda Weeks-Brown, who is stepping down at the end of this month

Gibson Dunn hires Google’s chief privacy officer to expand AI practice

Keith Enright joins a growing group of former Silicon Valley executives at US firm

Freshfields to scrap ‘Bruckhaus Deringer’ in rebrand

Refreshed brand to be rolled out from October

End of the road as BMW secures victory in patent dispute over vehicle navigation tech

The automotive giant has been embroiled in a legal battle with Swiss-based Beacon Navigation for 13 years

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News | US

eBay lines up TriNet legal head as next CLO

Samantha Wellington replaces Marie Oh Huber, who left the e-commerce giant in June

Addleshaw Goddard joins raft of firms upping London NQ rates to six figures

Addleshaws’ newly-qualified London lawyers will see salaries increase 5% to £100k

Norton Rose Fulbright formalises new global leadership structure

Firm replaces global CEO role with global managing partner set up, currently jointly held by Jeff Cody and Peter Scott

DAC Beachcroft debuts in Hong Kong with new office and association

Top 50 UK firm bucks trend of law firms pulling out of the city

Education company Kaplan seizes thousands of counterfeit materials in India

Kaplan is a leading global financial education provider through its successful Kaplan Schweser books

Royal Tulip luxury hotel brand-owner Louvre promotes ex-Moet Hennessy legal manager to GC

Grégoire Bouffard will replace Benjamin Dornic, who announced he is leaving the hotel group

Freeths increases turnover by 13% as double-digit revenue growth trend continues

Revenue hit £145.5m following first full year in Scotland and buoyant disputes activity

Taft to combine with Sherman & Howard in latest large US merger

Tie-up to create firm with revenues of $810m and more than 1,000 lawyers

Kirkland, Freshfields guide $1bn acquisition of stake in BP Pipelines TAP

Freshfields advises BP as Kirkland counsells Apollo-managed funds on acquisition

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Deals | UK

Greenberg Traurig adds arbitration partner trio in London from Pinsent Masons

Pinsents' former international arbitration co-head Jason Hambury joins with Gurmukh Riyat and Clea Bigelow-Nuttall

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Squire Patton Boggs hires former Trump defence secretary

Mark Esper joins in Washington DC to advise on national security, domestic and foreign policy

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