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Cooley boosts London ECVC bench with triple partner hire from US rivals
Taylor Wessing’s ECVC head joins alongside partners from White & Case and Goodwin Procter
Freshfields announces social mobility recruitment target for trainee intake
Global giant wants at least 20% of UK trainees to come from lower socio-economic backgrounds
A&O Shearman, Baker McKenzie score roles on Methanex’s $2.05bn OCI deal
Reed Smith also called in for sale of OCI’s methanol business alongside McCarthy Tétrault and Loyens & Loeff
Weil recruits ex-Goldman Sachs lawyer for London finance team
Nicola Noël joins US firm as a partner from Canadian pension investor PSP Investments
Troutman Pepper, Locke Lord cement $1.6bn merger
Troutman Pepper Locke to have 1,600 lawyers across 33 US and two European offices
A&O Shearman to axe 10% of partnership and close Johannesburg office
Consulting arm will also close as UK giant takes ‘difficult but necessary’ step to ‘reshape’ business
Wall Street stalwarts score lead roles on Verizon’s $20bn Frontier acquisition
Debevoise, Cravath and Paul Weiss called in for deal to boost Verizon’s US fibre network
Panodil-maker Perrigo hires Haleon interim GC as legal head
Charles Atkinson to replace Todd Kingma, who retires from Perrigo for a second time
White & Case launches Tokyo disputes practice with Orrick partner hire
Shinsuke Yakura joins having led Orrick’s Tokyo office
Major win for publishers in US ebook lending case
Internet Archive had been sued for infringing copyright by making digital copies of print books
IBA voices ‘great concern’ over Mexico’s ‘far-reaching’ judicial reform proposals
IBA president Almudena Arpón de Mendívil Aldama says the plans would likely impact judicial independence
Reed Smith latest US firm to reduce China footprint with Beijing closure
Move leaves firm with China bases in Shanghai, Hong Kong
US real estate group Amherst hires Lendlease Americas’ GC as legal head
Peter Campbell takes over the GC role from Gabriel Steffens
Freshfields recruits senior capital markets partner in New York from Paul Hastings
Christopher DeCresce was previously vice chair of Paul Hastings’ securities and capital markets practice
Latham names successor to London managing partner Kensell
Corporate partner Ed Barnett takes over leadership of 500-lawyer office
Slaughter and May boosts NQ pay to £150k
Final Magic Circle firm to bump up salaries from £125k amid ongoing salary war
Hausfeld hires commercial litigation partner from Covington & Burling in London
Greg Lascelles has been involved in landmark High Court and FCA disputes and Supreme Court cases
Prominent arbitration lawyers launch new boutique in Europe
WilmerHale’s Maxi Scherer and Niuscha Bassiri of Hanotiau & van den Berg team up for ArbBoutique
Eversheds adds ex-Quinn Emanuel partner, Freshfields partner to London disputes bench
Former Quinn Emanuel UK competition co-head joins transatlantic firm alongside Freshfields’ Japan head of disputes
Morrison Foerster loses four Asia partners to Baker McKenzie, Jingtian & Gongcheng
Movers include MoFo’s Singapore managing partner Shirin Tang
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