Weekly Update – 23rd of February 2026

Welcome to this week’s update, where we bring you the latest moves, promotions, and strategic appointments shaping the legal industry.   Partner Moves  Individual   UK & Ireland  Mayer Brown loses LevFin Partner to HSF Kramer in London  Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer has hired Mayer Brown’s former Head of Leveraged Finance Stuart Brinkworth.   Paul Hastings gains Private Equity Partner from Cooley  Paul Hastings has hired a Private Equity Partner from […]

Weekly Update – 16th February 2026

Welcome to this week’s update, where we bring you the latest moves, promotions, and strategic appointments shaping the legal industry.   Partner Moves Team Latham & Watkins adds Private Equity quartet from Clifford Chance in Paris The incoming quartet are Partners Benjamin de Blegiers, Daniel Zerbib and Gauthier Martin alongside Counsel Alexandre Namoun. The team […]

Weekly Update – 9th February 2026

Welcome to this week’s update, where we bring you the latest moves, promotions, and strategic appointments shaping the legal industry.   Partner Moves UK & Ireland Pinsent Masons announces new Partner hire to London Employment team  International law firm Pinsent Masons has today announced that the firm has bolstered its London Employment & Incentives team with the hire […]

Weekly Update – 2nd February 2026

Welcome to this week’s update, where we bring you the latest moves, promotions, and strategic appointments shaping the legal industry.   Partner Moves Individual  UK & Ireland Brabners makes twin Partner hire from Forsters, gunnercooke to debut in London As part of its plans to open a new office in London, Brabners announced double Partner […]

Weekly Update – 26th January 2026

Welcome to this week’s update, where we bring you the latest moves, promotions, and strategic appointments shaping the legal industry.   Partner Moves  UK & Ireland  Paul Weiss expands London footprint with Simpson Thacher private equity partner hire  Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison has hired private equity and M&A lawyer Paul Foote from Simpson […]

Navigating Private Equity Talent: Strategic Hiring Trends in London’s Legal Market

Fides have extensive experience in helping clients find the right talent within the highly competitive Private Equity-focused legal market. In this article, we provide insights gained firsthand from our searches, coupled with an analysis of the data we’ve gathered on lateral hires in the year to date. We offer a view on how law firms […]

Private Equity Shake-Up: The Driving Force Behind London’s Record Partner Moves

                This article explores the drivers behind recent lateral partner hires in the London legal market with a lens on Private Equity and why the high rate of partner hires in this space seems set to continue. In addition, a case study of one UK firm’s positioning in […]

Holding Brands Accountable: The Regulatory Pushback Against Greenwashing

As ESG considerations become embedded in corporate strategy and investor priorities, the legal risks associated with greenwashing are escalating. Once an abstract marketing concern for many firms, greenwashing, defined as ‘behaviour or activities that make people believe that a company is doing more to protect the environment than it really is’ [1], has become a […]

The Potential Impact of South Africa’s Legal Sector Code on BEE within Recruitment

          The Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment framework is an initiative that falls under the regulations of the 2024 Legal Sector Code which has been promoted by the government to spearhead economic and social transformation to historically disadvantaged individuals in South Africa. This development has become a hot topic with key political […]

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