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Allen & Overy’s revenue exceeds £2bn as managing partner resigns for personal reasons
Turnover ahead of proposed Shearman merger grows 7% but PEP falls slightly to £1.82m
Shoosmiths quits private client market as 41-strong team transfers to Midlands firm
Group joins recently launched Rothley Law in deal financed by litigation funder Harbour
‘Pursued for life’: Hong Kong targets dissident lawyers with bounty, misconduct complaints
Independence of professional bodies to be tested as pro-democracy clampdown continues
Ashurst grows revenue by 10% to £879m but PEP edges down
High inflation and rising costs sees PEP dip 0.4% from 2022’s record high of £1.175m
Writer and performer Sarah Silverman joins class action lawsuits against OpenAI and Meta
Creators of ChatGPT face a spate of copyright infringement lawsuits
Skadden hires ex-Pentagon special counsel to co-lead cybersecurity team
David Simon joins in Washington DC from leadership role at Mayer Brown
Sullivan & Cromwell adds former USPTO head and federal circuit judge
Andrei Iancu and Kathleen O’Malley join from Irell & Manella to bolster US firm’s patent practice in Los Angeles and Washington DC
Wolf Theiss adds 27-lawyer corporate team in Poland from Wardyński & Partners
Hires see European heavyweight more than double Poland lawyer headcount and open second office in the country in Poznań
‘A life of meaning’ – influential Law Society of Singapore president dies, aged 57
Adrian Tan continued in his role despite undergoing treatment for cancer
Reed Smith and Arthur Cox called in for Bonnier News’ strategic investment in Ireland’s Business Post Group
Deal sees Europe’s largest business newspaper publisher enter Irish market
DWF in talks over sale to private equity firm
Listed UK firm ‘minded to recommend’ offer if tabled by Chambers and Partners owner Inflexion
Former acting deputy USPTO director moves to O’Melveny
Veteran government litigator Coke Morgan Stewart joins firm’s Washington DC office
Knights ups revenue 13% to £142m as acquisitions continue
Listed firm hails “resilient performance against a challenging backdrop” as underlying profit before tax rises nearly a fifth to £21.6m
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner names co-chair Steve Baumer as new global CEO
Fellow co-chair Lisa Mayhew will stand down as the firm moves to a single leadership structure
Plexus Law sold out of administration saving 540 jobs
National defendant insurance firm is acquired by owner of AxiomDWFM and Ince & Co
Sullivan & Cromwell tops M&A rankings in H1 as deal making tumbles to three-year low
First half deal value is lowest since 2020 but activity picked up 33% in Q2 compared to Q1, according to Refinitiv
Around the house: Google parent’s health business hires new GC, ex-ITV lawyer takes CLO role at Arqiva
This week’s roundup of top in-house moves also includes appointments at SiriusPoint, Bambee, SIG Sauer and GPS Capital Markets
Linklaters hires Norton Rose Fulbright arbitration partner in Singapore to lead Asia team
Andrew Battisson has returned to a Magic Circle UK firm having first made partner at Allen & Overy
Baker McKenzie ups London NQ lawyer pay to £118k
Seven percent increase sees Bakers overtake London rivals like Slaughter and May and Macfarlanes but stay behind most of Magic Circle
HFW rings in record results as revenue grows 13% against 17.5% jump in PEP
Profit per equity partner hits £786k as UK-headquartered firm grows revenue in every group and region in first year of new strategy
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