European moves: 26 May 2016
All the latest partner hires and other appointments within Continental European firms and offices.
All the latest partner hires and other appointments within Continental European firms and offices.
Slaughter and May has announced that its former corporate head, Frances Murphy, has died after a long illness.
King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) has made up six partners across its UK, Europe, Middle East and US offices. The EUME and US partner promotions come ahead of the Asia and Australia promotions later this summer.
Clyde & Co has made good on its promise to open in Miami by acquiring local litigation boutique Thornton Davis Fein.
Firms including Kirkland & Ellis, Boies Schiller & Flexner and Hughes Hubbard & Reed are among six firms to have been cut from the roster since 2013.
Addleshaw Goddard has become the latest firm to join the race to find a US merger partner. Earlier this week The Lawyer revealed that it was in merger talks with Virginia-based Hunton & Williams in a deal which could create a £535m firm.
Osborne Clarke IT director Nathan Hayes says that firms should focus on service, not cost cutting in The Lawyer’s 60-second interview on key topics from the upcoming Business Leadership Summit.
DAC Beachcroft has agreed a formal best friends relationship with Northern Ireland insurance firm McKinty & Wright.
Olswang has become the fourth law firm to be challenged by MPs looking into the collapse of BHS, after advising Retail Acquisitions on its purchase last year.
Kirkland & Ellis has made its sixth partner hire from Linklaters in a year, hiring private equity partner Stuart Boyd in London, The Lawyer can reveal.
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