Weil Gotshal & Manges is advising Glencore as it enters renewed discussions with Rio Tinto over a potential combination that would rank among the largest corporate deals ever attempted.

Taylor Wessing’s offices in the Netherlands and Belgium are set to exit the firm’s existing verein and will not join the merger with Winston & Strawn, as further details emerge over the future ...

Willkie Farr & Gallagher has lured a restructuring partner from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett’s London office, as the firm seeks to boost its transatlantic credentials. Marc Hecht, who was promoted ...

Five former Pogust Goodhead lawyers have joined Johnson Law Group, with the former lead solicitor on the Dieselgate trial assuming the role of managing partner of the firm’s London office.

Freshfields saved an estimated £110,000 by changing its lighting and temperature control systems in London and Manchester, accounts show. The firm’s most recent Companies House report highlights ...

Another Ropes & Gray private equity partner has exited the firm as personnel changes continue in the City, and expansion continues on the continent. Paul Armstrong has resigned from the Bostonian ...

The merger of two of Denmark’s top law firms, Horten and DAHL, has officially gone live as of the beginning of this month. Moving into Horten’s existing headquarters in ...

The Ministry of Justice has failed to make sufficient progress on improving access to legal aid, understanding the wider ...

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has launched a consultation on proposals to introduce an Interest on Lawyers’ Client Accounts (ILCA) scheme, under which a portion of interest earned on client money ...

Akin and Milbank have taken lead mandates on the £3bn full acquisition of PA Consulting by Jacobs Solutions. Akin’s new private equity hires Dan Oates and Angela Becker closed the deal for ...

Pogust Goodhead has hired corporate and strategic adviser Lynn Wong to take on the role of general counsel and chief operating officer. Wong joins the firm from Scuba Tx, a life sciences tech ...

Simmons & Simmons is bringing 10 partners into its partnership this month, underpinning new managing partner Emily Monastiriotis’s aim to reinforce the firm’s international strategy. Nine of the ...