Herbert Smith Freehills has hired two veteran technology, media and telecommunications partners away from Eversheds Sutherland for its 60-year-old Paris office. Emmanuel Ronco and Vincent Denoyelle join from Eversheds’ intellectual property/information technology and data privacy group in Paris, where Ronco co-led the global IP group and Denoyelle was international head…

Firms including HFW, Fieldfisher, Osborne Clarke, Stephenson Harwood LLP and Kennedys are among the first to report their financials for 2023/24, and all of them posted double-digit revenue growth. How? Wasn’t 2023 a “high inflationary”, “high rates”, “impending recession” doom and gloom year? In the video, Law.com International managing editor…

Australian law firm Clayton Utz has hired a corporate partner and an associate from Baker McKenzie amid an increase in mergers and acquisitions this year. Jim Peterson is leaving the Baker McKenzie partnership to join Clayton Utz as a legal consultant in Brisbane while Lisa Houston joins as a senior…

During a June 18 runoff election, voters in Burke and Richmond counties decided retiring Augusta Judicial Circuit Chief Judge Daniel J. Craig replacement from a pair of Augusta attorneys. Now Judge-elect Charles Lyons is preparing to transition from being an adversarial litigator known for handling personal injury, wrongful death, premises liability and…

Italian law firm BonelliErede has added a partner-led, four-lawyer team from PwC TLS Avvocati e Commercialisti to its financial regulatory practice in Rome. Partner Anna Di Vilio was previously a legal director at PwC’s Italian operation for more than four years, according to her LinkedIn profile. Three associates joined Di…

An Advocate-General for the European Court of Justice recommended today that Europe’s highest court reject Germany’s prohibition on third-party ownership in law firms, potentially paving the way for private equity investors. The decision to accept or reject the Advocate-General’s opinion now rests with the European Court of Justice which could rule on…