Mining giant Rio Tinto has announced that its chief legal, governance and corporate affairs officer will leave the business during 2026 after five years in the role. Isabelle Deschamps will remain ...

Vinson & Elkins has hired Freshfields’ partner Melissa Raciti-Knapp in New York, strengthening its finance and infrastructure offering. The firm announced today that Raciti-Knapp will join its ...

Sullivan & Cromwell is continuing to build out across private credit, high-yield and restructuring, hiring a partner duo from Paul Hastings. Paul Hastings’ Patrick Bright and Will Needham are ...

Fletchers Group will be with its current owner for some years to come after a Sun Capital affiliate put it into a continuation fund. Continuation funds are investment vehicles which allow ...

18 December: The 2026 trainee announcements began early, with A&O Shearman coming out of the blocks just before Christmas to reveal that 32 of its 42 spring qualifiers would be remaining with the firm ...

Charles Russell Speechlys’ director of innovation Joe Cohen has announced he is leaving the firm. Cohen, who featured in The Lawyer’s Hot 100 last year, announced the news in a post on LinkedIn today.

Ofcom’s probe into Grok AI has underscored a blind spot in the Online Safety Act. The Lawyer spoke to Ofcom’s general counsel Martin Ballantyne and legal director Elizabeth Holloway about ...

Goldman Sachs’ long-serving general counsel and chief legal officer Kathryn Ruemmler has announced she will resign after fresh disclosures linked her to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Proskauer has hired an eight-strong private equity team from Hogan Lovells in Paris, led by three partners. Matthieu Grollemund, Hélène Parent and Pierre-Marie Boya and set to join the firm in ...

Willkie Farr & Gallagher has hired a private equity (PE) and M&A partner from Cravath, Swaine & Moore into its New York office, continuing a run of transaction-focused lateral hires.

Higgs has made an acquisition of a Scottish-based legal business, its first deal since it secured backing from August Equity last summer. The Black Country-headquartered firm has acquired ...

DLA Piper’s transition to smart meters in its London office could save the firm £125,000 per year, accounts show. According to DLA Piper’s latest annual report filed on Companies House last ...