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London International Disputes Week begins with arbitration-focused day as top lawyers back tech’s profound impact on disputes
Ben Rigby reports on LIDW’s opening day featuring keynotes on aspects of arbitration and a tech study
Perkins Coie adds K&L Gates renewables practice leads on West Coast
Buck Endemann and Elizabeth Crouse join as Inflation Reduction Act heralds clean energy investment boom
Dentons’ ‘historic’ India combination goes live
Move sees Dentons becomes first international law firm to combine with an Indian firm
Nixon Peabody and Stroock target summer merger deal, media report states
Talks follow team departures from New York-based Stroock as it seeks growth as 'number one priority'
London real estate heavyweight and BCLP EMEA senior partner Robert MacGregor to retire
MacGregor to step down after more than 40 years advising on major real estate deals including in relation to Canary Wharf
Singapore partner succeeds London investigations specialist at helm of Baker McKenzie’s financial institutions group
Annual practice and sector group leadership refresh also ushers in new tax, IP and tech chiefs
Fladgate strikes upbeat note at start of UK financial reporting season with 10% revenue jump
Market 'holds up well' for top 100 UK firm as income hits £74m with PEP expected to reach record high
Steptoe & Johnson bolsters Asia investigations practice in New York with Shearman & Sterling duo
Cáitrín McKiernan and Brian Burke join as latest in string of hires in Steptoe’s investigations and white collar defence team
Gilead prevails against US government in billion-dollar patent trial
In an unusual move, the federal government had accused the biotech firm of infringing its patents related to HIV prevention
Dechert cuts 5% of global workforce as Big Law layoffs continue
Top 50 US firm to shed almost 100 lawyers and staff as it begins ‘redundancy process’ in London
Barnes & Thornburg adds healthcare and capital markets partners for Nashville debut
Five partners join from Holland & Knight, Baker Donelson and Bass Berry & Sims as US firm continues rapid expansion across the country
S&C, Cleary, Ropes & Gray and Hengeler line up for $4.25bn Baxter Biopharma Solutions sale
Deal sees Advent and Warburg Pincus turn to longstanding advisers as they unveil standalone services business
Kennedys adds DAC Beachcroft specialist liability lead for Newcastle launch
Andrea Ward joins to launch insurance specialist’s 13th UK office as DAC Beachcroft colleagues Tom Walshaw and Andrew Sheppard defect to Kennedys in London
60% of companies hit by pandemic-fuelled counterfeiting rise, survey finds
Trademark association provides insight into how companies are working to address counterfeiting
Baker Hostetler adds eight lawyers to West Coast corporate team from AmLaw 100 rivals
Former M&A and securities practice leaders among arrivals from Proskauer Rose, Polsinelli and Kirkland & Ellis
Travers Smith senior partner to step down
Kathleen Russ to remain at London firm as a consultant after stepping down in June
Britvic taps Ocado for new GC as former legal chief heads to Whitbread
Mollie Stoker steps up to GC role after two years as deputy head at online grocery delivery business
Linklaters, Allen & Overy and Cravath called in for Deutsche Börse’s €3.9bn SimCorp acquisition
Covington & Burling also acts on German stock exchange operator's biggest acquisition to date alongside Germany's Hengeler Mueller and Danish firms Plesner and Kromann Reumert
Londongrad lives on: Russian claims in London's commercial courts at record high
Research underlines UK capital’s resilience as disputes centre with international litigants, led by Russians, outnumbering domestic parties, reports Ben Rigby
Partners take 100-plus lawyers from Lewis Brisbois for new employment spinoff
Am Law 100 firm’s employment team leaders defect to set up boutique, taking up to 140 lawyers with them
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