Hire follows Hogan Lovells hiring 23-lawyer finance and M&A team in Italy from Orrick | 2d

Justin Stock joins with two more partners to boost Akin’s tech transactions bench | 3d

PEP jumps 12% to £1.3m after flatlining in FY23 | 3d

Beefed-up powers introduced this week following string of defections to rivals, according to reports | 4d

Tie-up to make Spanish heavyweight second-largest international firm in Mexico | 5d

Partner transfers from Singapore to lead office focused on shipping, trade and dispute resolution | 5d

Transatlantic firm adds lawyers from K&L Gates, Ropes & Gray and Weil to help target global private capital market across full investment lifecycle | 6d

Strong performance across all regions and industries sees Anglo-Australian firm grow turnover 9% to £961m | 6d

Leading Scottish independent hands out firmwide bonus as turnover grows 7.5% to £114.3m, as PEP falls £2k to £846k | 6d

Alexandra Chauvin’s hire follows firm recruiting Ropes funds heavyweight Emily Brown last November | 1w

Firm points to growth across sectors and geographies as revenue reaches £845m | 1w

Trio of partners join from Wilson Sonsini and boutique Hooper Lundy & Bookman as Orrick continues life sciences push | 1w

Tana Ryan and Navneeta Rekhi join as New York firm targets West Coast growth | 1w

Profit before tax jumps 17.2% to £1.0bn as PEP hits £2.2m ahead of tie-up with Shearman & Sterling | 1w

Strong performance across corporate and litigation practices fules 6% turnover trise to £206.7m as PEP hits £781k | 1w

Paul Weiss and Latham & Watkins follow closely behind as megadeals contribute to 18% rise in global deal value | 1w

Ropes, Cravath and Simpson Thacher also acting in deal to intended to turn Hollywood icon into a tech-media hybrid | 1w

Bakers counsels Carlsberg in deal to help Danish brewer expand beyond beer | 1w

Lore Leitner brings experience in GDPR-driven privacy compliance programmes as US firms cite growing demand from clients for data security and AI advice | 2w

HSF, DLA Piper and HFW among firms to boost pay as Paul Weiss introduces new UK training contract that dishes out market-topping £180k to its NQs | 2w