Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has promoted around 40 of its personal assistants (PAs) to executive assistant after about 80 applied for the newly-created roles as part of a review of 180 staff.
Clyde & Co has continued its US expansion, launching in Chicago and Washington DC. The firm has taken on a team of ten partners from Global 100 firm Troutman Sanders who will launch the two new offices.
In a rare exit, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has lost partner Martin Davies to Latham & Watkins. It is understood Davies (pictured) has taken on a leadership role in Latham’s London dispute resolution group.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Clifford Chance are advising on Tesco’s £3.7bn merger with Booker Group, the UK’s biggest food wholesaler.
Allen & Overy‘s (A&O) c-suite including its senior partner and managing partner, global practice heads and support directors took home £13.6m in 2015/16, up 7% on last year’s £12.7m, the firm’s accounts reveal.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has lost a member of its US partnership with Goodwin Procter hiring securities and commercial litigation partner Marshall Fishman.
Addleshaw Goddard managing partner John Joyce has been re-elected uncontested for a second term as the firm continues its growth through mergers.
Quinn Emmanuel Urquhart & Sullivan will increase its office space by half with a move into a floor of Olswang’s 90 High Holborn premises as the TMT player heads toward its merger.
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius has opened a Hong Kong office and broadened out its China offering, taking nine partners from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe.
Clyde & Co‘s highest-paid LLP member received £1.4m during the last financial year, while its merger with Simpson & Marwick brought in an additional £7m in profit in 2015/16.
