Latham & Watkins and Paul Weiss are in lead advisory roles as Anglo American agrees to sell part of its Australian mining business to Dhilmar. Anglo American has accepted a $3.875bn offer from ...

‘These firms don’t have their destiny in their hands,’ says one well-known partner at a US outfit, about the latest wave of firms moving away from traditional lockstep towards more merit-based pay.

Kirkland & Ellis has tapped Cleary Gottlieb for a four-partner competition team based across London and Brussels. The team is ...

Kirkland & Ellis and McGuireWoods have bagged the lead roles in the latest megadeal of the year, which sees US energy giant NextEra acquire Dominion Energy, a Virginia-headquartered company that is a ...

US firm Haynes Boone is continuing its London buildout with the hire of experienced Addleshaw Goddard fund finance partner Jeremy Cross. Cross has been at Addleshaws since 2021, before which he helped ...

Mining giant Rio Tinto has appointed a new chief legal officer, hiring BP’s deputy general counsel Trudi Charles to fill the position. Charles, who will take up the role on 1 August 2026, is replacing ...

Leading Scottish firm Burness Paull has reported double-digit growth across all key metrics for the 2025-26 financial year, ...

A&O Shearman has reshuffled its leadership board for the first time since its 2024 merger, reducing the total size of the board from 11 partners to nine. The board now includes six partners in ...

Broadfield, the firm formed last year by Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) and UK mid-market firm BDB Pitmans, has seen around 20% of its UK partners leave, according to Companies House filings. The firm’s ...

London managing partner Claire Dutch on how the firms are getting to know each other in the run-up to their combination this ...

Senior in-house lawyers discuss the unique stresses of their roles and share the coping strategies that have worked for them ...