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CMS posts 6.2% rise in global revenue fuelled by commercial practice growth
Turnover hit €1.862bn for the 2022 financial year, but firm did not disclose profits
Midlands super-set appoints new head of chambers
Family silk takes over from former Bar Council chair at one of UK’s largest regional chambers
Demand for bankruptcy services lifts US law firm performance in second quarter
Litigation growth also helps offset drop in transactional demand, according to Thomson Reuters
Norton Rose Fulbright secures top BNP Paribas disputes lawyer in London
Alison Kellett is also president of the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal
Travers Smith boosts funds group with partner hire from Proskauer Rose
Asset management specialist Tosin Adeyeri joins UK firm in London
Addleshaw Goddard and Bird & Bird post double-digit revenue growth
Profit at AG rises 18% in FY23 to £184m as Bird & Bird’s grows 8.4%
Around the house: Citadel lands top Goldman legal duo, Merck promotes auditing head to GC
This week’s roundup of top in-house moves also includes appointments at LPL Financial, CBRE, MUFG and Mashreq Bank
Fieldfisher adds Meta lawyer to lead Dublin data protection team
Ciara Burke has remit to grow data protection and privacy practice amid uptick in regulation
Unitary patent dashboard shows ‘encouraging demand’
Nine weeks in and figures reveal the UP is proving popular with roughly 700 requests a week
Kirkland & Ellis secures Paul Weiss London head Alvaro Membrillera
Departure leaves Paul Weiss with three partners in London office according to website
Harneys sells fiduciary business to private equity giant Hillhouse
Offshore firm to reinvest “significant portion” of the sale proceeds into the law firm through creation of accelerator fund
IBA issues guide to legal services trade as international agreements proliferate
Latest trade agreements affecting legal services ‘unrecognisable from the past’, says co-author
Consilio snaps up UK’s Lawyers On Demand and SYKE in major expansion of enterprise legal services business
Acquisition sees US firm add LOD’s pool of 4,500+ legal practitioners in 25 countries
Am Law 200 firm Dinsmore & Shohl merges with Florida boutique, gaining Orlando office
Cincinnati-based firm adds 19 lawyers and nearly two dozen business professionals through merger with Mateer & Harbert
BLM merger fuels 20% jump in Clyde & Co’s revenue to £788.6m
PEP holds steady at £708k as insurance law giant points to investments and swelling partner ranks
Norton Rose Fulbright adds senior projects and construction team in Sydney from Clyde & Co
Clydes’ former Australia head of projects and construction joins alongside senior consultant and special counsel
Simpson Thacher adds real estate private equity partner in London from longtime client Blackstone
Hire of Angus Lennox follows New York firm adding Blackstone’s Europe GC in 2021
Competition litigation team exits Constantine Cannon for Fieldfisher as US boutique shutters London office
Exit of group led by partners Richard Pike and Stephen Critchley marks departure of last of Constantine Cannon’s London-based lawyers
Travers Smith to lead review into NatWest’s handling of Nigel Farage account closure
Law firm will examine decision to shut former MEP’s Coutts private bank account and potential GDPR breaches
Travers Smith underlines resilience as revenue inches up against flat PEP
Results follow run of partner losses at start of the year to top tier rivals
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