Victoria Basham

Offices in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban to become independent next year, making NRF latest international firm to pull out of South Africa

Dan Oates and Angela Becker to join Akin according to reports, following other senior defections from Ropes' London PE team this year

Kirkland broke with years of tradition in not announcing the promotions

Departure of Stephen Nicolas leaves Paul Hastings with no London real estate partners following other recent exits

Ropes' business restructuring chair, Ryan Dahl, leads team move across New York and Chicago

Promotions spread across 20 of firm's 43 global offices in largest cohort since 2022

US firm cites "extensive" Australian relationships as it opens office focused on commerical litigation, energy and tech transactions and global workforce matters

Miles Flynn and Rehan Hanif as part of broader infrastructure push by Milbank in London

Freshfields acts for Germany's BASF as Milbank and Latham counsel Carlyle

Tie-up brings Frost Brown six new offices across Northeastern US, creates firm with 800 lawyers and $450m in revenue

Six law firms called in for video game maker's acquisition by a consortium that includes Silver Lake and Saudi Arabia's PIF, the biggest leveraged buyout attempt in history

Burr Eckstut joins as head of US tech transactions from White & Case

Jeffrey Poss to succeed longtime chair Thomas Cerabino at the start of next year

Fully integrated operations to launch later this month under Eversheds' International LLP following breakdown of current practice's merger talks with William Fry

Orrick hits Cadwalader for eight-partner finance team in London and US

Freshfields guides Bahrain sovereign wealth fund as it takes full ownership of McLaren

Group led by Withers Tech creator James Shaw to open YPOG's first international office

Ira Schacter marks one of McDermott’s first big laterals since merger with Schulte

UK-headquartered firm grows profit per equity partner 3% in year to end of March as revenue inches up 1% to £385m

Chris Henry and Gaby LaHatte arrive hot on the heels of Weil’s hire of Latham partner trio for new IP, technology and science litigation practice