The BBC has instructed US law firm Ballard Spahr in its defence of the $10bn defamation claim brought against it by US President Donald Trump. Trump is suing the corporation over its editing of his ...

As the Jewish festival of Chanukah comes to an end at sundown today, last week Jewish lawyers in London gathered in the wake of the terrorist attacks on a similar celebration in Sydney.

BHP has replaced Slaughter and May as instructing solicitors in the ongoing claim over the collapse of the Mariana Dam in Brazil. The mining giant has instead turned to Herbert Smith Freehills ...

Weil Gotshal & Manges has secured a headline mandate advising Harbour Energy on its $3.2bn acquisition of US-based LLOG Exploration Company from LLOG Holdings. The Harbour Energy team was led ...

Currently the firm with the UK’s most cumbersome name, CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang was created by the merger of three firms in 2017 – a huge story that caused massive interest across the legal ...

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Latham & Watkins have taken lead roles on Bridgepoint Group’s acquisition of the Newbury Partners team from Bridge Investment Group, a subsidiary of Apollo ...

Domestic Italian firms Macchi di Cellere and Carnelutti have this week entered a strategic cooperation, the firms announced. Their cooperation will see the two firms continue operating as ...

Swedish PE-backed platform AGRD Partners has added former Travers Smith managing partner, David Patient, in a bid to further strengthen its board of directors. Launching in August this ...

A claim against a highly-sought events planner, whose recent work includes organising the wedding of the late Steve Jobs’ daughter, has settled, The Lawyer has learnt. Earlier this ...

Setfords has entered into a new all-assets debenture in favour of HSBC, as the five-year anniversary of the date when private equity house Phoenix Equity Partners first invested in the firm draws near ...

December has always felt like a world within a world in law firms. The decorations go up, the calendars fill, and lawyers shuttle between client drinks, team socials and long-delayed catch-ups over… ...