Vodafone has co-developed a legaltech tool to compete against the likes of Harvey and Legora. The telecommunications giant has partnered with startup Aavalynx on an AI-powered litigation management… ...

Walker Morris has secured a hire from the City, with DLA Piper’s co-head of UK equity capital markets relocating to Leeds to join the firm. Martin Penn had been at DLA for 19 years… ...

Three partners from Kirkland & Ellis’ Riyadh office are set to move to Latham & Watkins. The three partners understood to be making the move – Noor Al-Fawzan, Osama Lone and Manal Al-Musharaf – all… ...

DLA Piper has hired a leveraged finance partner from A&O Shearman, in a bid to grow its capabilities across high-yield, and support clients in the debt and equity capital markets space.

Latham & Watkins has nabbed three technology M&A partners from Morrison Foerster, two of whom previously worked at the US firm’s London office. Andrew Boyd, MoFo’s London managing partner… ...

Paul Weiss is poised to hire a disputes partner from Akin amid plans to kickstart a litigation team in London. Richard Hornshaw, head of Akin’s international disputes group and former leader of its… ...

Revenue at Dentons has risen 9 per cent across the UK, Ireland and Middle East (UKIME), bringing the firm’s total revenue for the region to £306m for the 2024/25 financial year. Last year’s revenue… ...

King & Wood has opened its doors in Singapore, with a nine-partner team of veterans of the firm. The Singapore launch follows affiliated office openings in Vancouver and Los Angeles, making it King & ...

Today’s merger between Taylor Wessing UK and Winston & Strawn marks the start of a new transatlantic era for the combined firm. But its combination signals a break-up too – that of Taylor Wessing’s… ...

Update: Frasers Group has confirmed it is buying Harvey Nichols from FTI. Winston Taylor advised Frasers Group, with a team including partners Jeremy Drew, Ed Chapman, and Henry Priestley.

Clifford Chance and Paul Weiss won key instructions advising on EasyJet’s £5.7bn acquisition by private equity behemoth Apollo. Advising EasyJet on the deal were corporate partners Melissa Fogarty… ...

We all know that what happened at Axiom Ince and PM Law was really, really bad. Both became bloated through mergers before the former was shut for fraudulent behaviour and the latter hastily closed… ...