Latham & Watkins has hired intellectual property and life sciences partner Lydia Torne to its office in London. Torne, who is a Legal 500 next generation partner for life sciences and healthcare, ...

Nearly 1,200 law firms have secured a place in the new Legal 500 UK rankings, which were revealed yesterday (1 October) after months of research into legal markets across the country. The rankings are ...

In the latest of a series of profiles spotlighting unconventional paths to partnership, Ashurst arbitrator Harsh Hari Haran looks back to his years practising in India and Singapore before joining ...

Earlier this month, Paul Weiss made waves in the Washington DC market with its hire of a three-partner antitrust team from A&O Shearman, led by global antitrust head David Higbee and including ...

BT, Latham & Watkins, Burges Salmon, Freshfields and Sidley Austin picked up some of the big prizes at this year’s Legal Business Awards, which saw a host of top legal leaders flock to London’s ...

Tonight (30 September), the legal profession’s finest will once again gather at the Grosvenor House Hotel to celebrate their achievements over the last year. Eight firms have made the shortlist for ...

A raft of top law firms have scored lead roles as American video game company Electronic Arts (EA) has agreed to be taken private in a $55bn deal that is widely reported as the largest buy-out deal in ...

Angela Yuen, deputy GC of Japanese energy powerhouse JERA, has built a career spanning private practice and in-house roles across Australia, Japan, and beyond. She talks us through establishing the ...

Eversheds Sutherland has strengthened its tax department in London with the addition of Kevin Cummings from McDermott Will & Schulte. Cummings spent four years at the firm, including as head of UK tax ...

Hogan Lovells has bolstered its London private equity offering with the hire of real estate-focused PE partners Michael James and Edward Meadowcroft from Paul Hastings.The pair join after more than a ...

When CMS picked up a nine-lawyer team from BCLP this August, it represented the end of the transatlantic firm’s foray into ...

Atheer Al BinAli heads up the legal team at Badael –  a company which supports individuals to quit smoking by providing tobacco-free alternatives. Here, she discusses the scope of her role, the impact ...