Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has completed its most recent round of partner promotions. The firm promoted 11 globally, making up one new partner in London and 10 in the US. In London, Ezra Zahabi was promoted to…
Cooley has announced its first partner promotions in London, where the firm established an office in 2015. The firm’s global promotions round includes 19 new partners, of whom three are based in London. Aaron Archer…
Cooley has hired corporate partner Henry Yin from Kirkland & Ellis in Beijing. Yin began at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom in New York in 2009 before moving on to Kirkland & Ellis in 2014, joining the firm’s…
Cooley has recruited tax partner Alexander Lee from McDermott Will & Emery in Los Angeles. Lee’s practice focuses on national and global tax matters and private M&A. At McDermott he previously headed up the firm’s…
Paul Hastings has recruited the head of Baker McKenzie’s London financial services practice, Arun Srivastava. Srivastava will join Paul Hastings as the City head of regulatory, fintech and payments. He started his…
The trend of UK growth among US West Coast firms seems to be solidifying, with ever-increasing UK lateral hires and rises in revenue indicating that the firms are finding a foothold. Seven of The Lawyer’s US Top 50…
US Firm Cooley has hired Michal Berkner from Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom’s London office. Berkner, a cross-border deals specialist, has spent over two decades at Skadden. Prior to Berkner’s departure, the…
US firm Cooley has announced the opening of a new office in Beijing. The office is the firm’s second location in China, where the firm opened a Shanghai base in 2011. Cooley has brought on Xun Zeng to serve as…
Cooley has brought on two partners in the US to boost its data protection team. The partners were hired from Norton Rose Fulbright and include Boris Segalis and David Navetta. Both partners served as co-chairs of…
Cooley has promoted a total of 18 lawyers in its latest partnership promotion round. The cohort includes four lawyers who were hired earlier in the year from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. All new partners from the…