The firm has snapped up a competition and anti-bribery specialist from the Direct Line Group to augment its regulatory offering. HFW has hired legal director Emma Thomas for its regulatory practice in ...

Lawyers at the International Bar Association Arbitration Day were positive about the support they get from judges, especially in the UK and Singapore, but worried that time and cost concerns were ...

The ninth Paris Arbitration Week opened with a call from Cairo firm Zulficar & Partners founding partner Mohamed Abdel Wahab for more action on diversity, which has benefits beyond the pure statistics ...

The Israeli firm’s newest partner is an experienced construction and insurance arbitration practitioner, while Luther in Hamburg has tempted back a former Clyde & Co Germany arbitration practice head, ...

Leading securities trade body SIFMA has filed an amicus curiae brief warning that federal courts should have jurisdiction over Securities Act claims related to a pending bankruptcy. A US securities ...

The firm has poached a disputes lawyer with over 30 years of experience from Cooley. Baker McKenzie has added trial lawyer Christa Anderson as a partner in its global dispute resolution practice. The ...

An arbitration and litigation practitioner with two decades’ experience has jumped ship to King & Spalding in the UK capital. Jonathan Swil, who formerly led the London litigation practice at Shearman ...

Following last year’s announcement that Kramer Levin is to merge with Herbert Smith Freehills, the New York-headquartered firm has lost four litigators to Hogan Lovells in the US capital. Hogan ...

The EU and UK’s top antitrust regulators have imposed hefty penalties on a group of car manufacturers and two industry bodies for engaging in an end-of-life vehicle recycling cartel. The European ...

AI is spreading like wildfire across the legal world, however the implementation can be both high risk and high reward. Artificial intelligence is making waves all over the world and continues to ...

An EU antitrust practitioner with over 15 years in the field has joined the firm’s Belgium operation. Macfarlanes has added more muscle its competition practice in Brussels with the addition of Foad ...

The High Court in London has struck out a claim accusing Swiss billionaire Thomas Flohr of defrauding a Guernsey VC fund by secretly setting up other companies and moving his assets between these ...