Karen Dunn has left along with three other DC-based and disputes-focused colleagues, in the wake of President Trump’s continuing executive orders against high-end law firms for “harmful activity”. A ...

Ashurst’s commonwealth government-focused office will become part of Australian firm Thomson Geer in July, in a week where a German white-collar boutique has opened a Cologne office and an ...

The firm has added a five-partner team to its California client offering. Paul Hastings has snapped up a real estate team from Latham & Watkins for its Los Angeles office. The firm announced the ...

Continued low levels of ethnic diversity negatively impact arbitration’s perceived legitimacy, but a survey suggests it still receives considerably less attention than efforts to address gender ...

The agency has given the two companies its conditions before it approves the USD 35 billion merger. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has ordered Synopsys and Ansys to divest select assets before it ...

A 2017 law change set out to make South Africa a presence in international arbitration. More than seven years on, there is an impressive infrastructure but significant obstacles to real traction in ...

Norway’s highest court has declined to quash an arbitral award on the grounds of arbitrator impartiality – with the appellant and court clashing on key points. In its first ever judgment on the issue ...

To fight financial crime in the real estate sector, Kenya’s lawyers have had to change their own ways of working. Kenya has been facing a reckoning over financial crime since the state was greylisted ...

A recently retired ex-Freshfields Cologne office managing partner has set up his own practice, while Kirkland & Ellis in the US has poached 13-litigator team from King & Spalding. The round-up begins ...

A US class action accusing yogurt titan Chobani of falsely advertising one of its popular products as sugar free has been thrown out by a district court. In a significant ruling for food manufacturers ...

The US Department of Justice has issued long-awaited guidance on white-collar enforcement, aligning with the Trump administration’s “America First” agenda. The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has ...

The firm has nabbed a leading digital and data disputes lawyer with over two decades of litigation experience for its Leeds office. Tech disputes big hitter James Hyde has left an extensive 23-year ...