Global M&A volume dropped for 2016 following its record high the year before, and with it Magic Circle firms Linklaters and Clifford Chance have been knocked out of Dealogic’s top ten European attorney rankings.
Stephenson Harwood has picked up three King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) private equity partners including former UK private equity co-head Jonathan Pittal, one of the four heavyweights that quit the firm in October.
Morrison & Foerster and Akin, Gump, Strauss Hauer & Feld have both promoted one woman each to their London offices in their 2017 rounds.
Waste management company Biffa has hired a new general counsel and company secretary, taking on GlaxoSmithKline’s interim assistant company secretary Rachael Hambrook.
Following its Belfast merger at the end of 2016, DWF has launched in Paris with the acquisition of four partner law firm Heenan Paris.
Trowers & Hamlins‘ top paid member took home £448,698 for the 2015/16 financial year, down 4% on the year previous, according to the firm’s LLP accounts.
Kirkland & Ellis has returned to Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer for another finance recruit, taking Jonathan Birks.
Clyde & Co has posted a 17% rise in turnover totalling £224m for the first half of the 2016/17 financial year, improving on last year’s 8% increase over the same period to £192m.
Former Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer senior partner Will Lawes is the latest heavyweight from the Magic Circle firm move into investment banking, taking a position at Lazard.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Allen & Overy (A&O) and Hogan Lovells have all advised as Asahi Group Holdings buys a group of eastern European beer brands from Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) for €7.3bn.
