Olswang Paris boss Guillaume Kessler has made the switch to rival firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe ahead of Olswang's impending three-way tie up with CMS and Nabarro.
Four technology lawyers are moving across to join the Paris office of US-based law firm Gibson Dunn & Crutcher.
DWF is continuing its international expansion through a tie-up with Parisian local Heenan Paris.
Olswang's Paris office will not be joining the newly merged CMS next year, it has been revealed.
Patent prosecution co-head Justin Hill is the second intellectual property partner to walk away from Olswang in as many months.
The US employment law and labour law specialist has merged with French employment boutique Fromont Briens in its latest Continental European swoop.
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has picked up yet another heavyweight from Allen & Overy's arbitration practice.
Goodwin Procter has confirmed that it is recruiting a team of lawyers from Shearman & Sterling for the Private Equity Practice in the Paris office.
The US law firm has added a three-lawyer team to its Paris office.
The firm is beginning to rebuild in the French capital after losing a renowned six-partner private equity team to Goodwin Procter in March.
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Baker & McKenzie, Eversheds and Hogan Lovells are among nine firms to have won spots on the inaugural global legal panel of French multinational aerospace, defence and security firm Safran.
French police and prosecutors swooped on Google's Paris offices on Tuesday, intensifying a tax-fraud probe amid accusations from across Europe that the Internet giant doesn't pay its fair share.
The French capital is further solidifying its status as a global arbitration hub.
Norton Rose Fulbright has made a key hire for its Paris office with tax partner Antoine Colonna d'lstria, who joins from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.
The Boston-based firm is launching a new office in the French capital with the help of a six-strong team of new recruits from King & Wood Mallesons.
Therium Capital Management is set to become the latest in a suite of funders looking towards alternative business structures to provide funding for claims in the United Kingdom.
Two executives from taxi app Uber are facing trial in Paris in what is to be one of the most significant legal showdowns to date in the bitter tussle between governments and tech innovators over how to best regulate the global digital economy.
In a bid to reform the 35-hour working week, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls (pictured) said yesterday that France will give companies the right to negotiate longer working hours and overtime pay.
One of the UK's most esteemed family lawyers, Richard Parry, may be forced by a High Court judge to step down from his trusteeship of the Longleat Estate.