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McGuireWoods Adds Michelle Williamson As Houston Partner To Expand Energy And Infrastructure Finance Practice

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 21, 2026

McGuireWoods has added Michelle Williamson as a partner in its Houston office, expanding the firm’s capabilities across energy, infrastructure and other complex financing transactions. She joins after nearly a decade at Kirkland & Ellis in Houston, where she was a partner.

Troutman Pepper Locke Adds Mac Marshall As Partner In Houston Energy Transactional Practice

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 20, 2026

Troutman Pepper Locke has added Mac Marshall as a partner in its Energy Transactional Practice Group. Based in Houston, Marshall brings approximately two decades of experience advising on upstream, midstream and international energy transactions collectively valued at more than $17 billion.

Latham & Watkins Adds Jennifer Ying Lan As Partner In New York Capital Markets Practice

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 20, 2026

Latham & Watkins has added Jennifer Ying Lan as a partner in its New York office. She joins the firm’s Capital Markets and Public Company Representation Practices with a focus on investment-grade debt offerings and other public and private financing transactions.

King & Spalding Adds Nadja Al Kanawati And Matteo Angelini To International Disputes Practice

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 18, 2026

King & Spalding has added Nadja Al Kanawati and Matteo Angelini to its International Disputes practice from WilmerHale. The appointments expand the firm’s capabilities across civil law and common law disputes while strengthening its international arbitration and high-value cross-border litigation offerings.

DLA Piper Profit Per Equity Partner Reaches $4.14 Million As Revenue Rises 8.4% To $4.6 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 18, 2026

DLA Piper has reported strong year-over-year financial growth for 2025, with global revenue reaching $4.6 billion. The result represents an increase of 8.4% compared with the previous year, reflecting continued demand across the firm’s international practices, sectors and markets. Profit per equity partner increased at a faster rate, rising 19.6% to $4.14 million.

Dentons Adds Ben Jarrard And Isabelle De Smedt To Public Policy And Litigation Practices

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 18, 2026

Dentons has expanded its public policy, litigation and investigations capabilities with the additions of Ben Jarrard in Atlanta and Isabelle De Smedt in Brussels.

Harvey Acquires Benchmark To Expand AI Platform For Asset Management

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 17, 2026

Harvey has acquired Benchmark, a New York-based decision infrastructure platform that helps asset managers capture institutional knowledge and apply it throughout the investment process. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Benchmark co-founders Alec Dunn and Connor Janson will join Harvey’s product and engineering organization alongside the company’s broader team.

Dentons Strengthens Prague Corporate And M&A Practice With Partner Jan Stejskal

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 17, 2026

Dentons has appointed Jan Stejskal as a partner in its Corporate and M&A practice in Prague, strengthening the global law firm’s capabilities in complex domestic and cross-border transactions involving Central and Eastern European clients.

King & Spalding Adds Complex Commercial Litigation Partner Meredith Pohl In Washington, D.C.

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 17, 2026

King & Spalding has added Meredith Pohl as a partner in its Business Litigation practice group, strengthening the firm’s complex commercial litigation and investigations capabilities in Washington, D.C.

Sidley Adds Structured Finance Partner Marissa Gluck in New York

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 16, 2026

Sidley has recruited Marissa Gluck as a partner in its Global Finance practice in New York. She joins from Latham & Watkins, where she practiced in the Structured Finance group. Her arrival is the twelfth Global Finance partner hire Sidley has made in 2026 alone.

DLA Piper Adds Mitchell Weiss As Investment Funds Partner In Chicago

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 16, 2026

DLA Piper has welcomed Mitchell Weiss as a Partner in its Investment Funds practice, based in the firm's Chicago office. Weiss advises on complex domestic and cross-border tax matters across the full fund lifecycle, with a practice spanning fund structuring, inbound investment planning, cross-border acquisition structuring, inbound financing, and tax opinions.

Dentons Link Legal Adds Capital Markets Partner Timothy Franklyn in Bengaluru

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 15, 2026

Dentons Link Legal has appointed Timothy Franklyn as a partner in its Capital Markets practice, expanding the firm’s capabilities in domestic and cross-border securities transactions. Franklyn will be based in the firm’s Bengaluru office.

Simpson Thacher Expands Market-Leading Insurance Transactional and Regulatory Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 15, 2026

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP announced a significant expansion of its Insurance Transactional and Regulatory team with the addition of Dennis Manfredi, Joseph Cosentino, and Benjamin Kralstein, who will join the firm as partners in the Mergers and Acquisitions Practice. The team brings extensive experience advising on sophisticated insurance M&A, reinsurance, private equity-backed insurance transactions, and complex regulatory matters. Dennis and Joe will join Jared Wilner as co-heads of the firm's Insurance Transactional and Regulatory team.

Ropes & Gray Adds Life Sciences Regulatory Partner Alison Dennis In London

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 15, 2026

Ropes & Gray has recruited Alison Dennis as a partner in its life sciences regulatory practice in London. Dennis joins from another international law firm, where she served as partner and international co-head of its life sciences and healthcare team. She is qualified in England and Wales and the Republic of Ireland.

Dentons Enhances Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice With Appointment Of Benjamin Ng

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 15, 2026

Dentons, the world's largest global law firm, has further strengthened its Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice in Greater China with the appointment of Benjamin Ng as partner in Hong Kong.

Stanford Law Study Finds AI Outperforms Law Professors In Answering Student Questions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 15, 2026

A recent Stanford Law School-led study found that law professors overwhelmingly preferred answers generated by artificial intelligence over responses written by fellow professors when evaluating questions commonly asked by law students.

Agiloft Announces General Availability Of Agiloft Astra, Expanding Access To Contract AI For Legal, Procurement And Finance Teams

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

Agiloft, a global leader in data-first contract lifecycle management, announced the general availability of Agiloft Astra, its contract AI platform. Effective immediately, any legal, procurement, finance, or sales professional can begin using Astra's free plan with no waitlist or upfront costs. Astra is designed to deliver value from the very first session, with new users reportedly achieving meaningful use in an average of five minutes. The announcement follows the close of Astra's Early Access Program, which launched in April this year. Every account in general availability is subject to the Astra Clean Data Promise, which guarantees that customer contract data is never used to train AI models, regardless of account tier.

Mayer Brown Adds Real Estate Transactional Partner Daniel Rothberg In Los Angeles From Orrick

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

Mayer Brown has expanded its Los Angeles real estate practice with the addition of Daniel Rothberg as a partner, joining from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. The hire is part of a broader period of strategic growth for Mayer Brown's nationally recognized Real Estate practice, which the firm says has seen significant expansion over the past year.

Paul, Weiss: M&A Partner Jamie McLaren Joins In Hong Kong

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 13, 2026

Paul, Weiss announced that Jamie McLaren will join the firm as a partner in the M&A Group within its Corporate Department. He will be based in Hong Kong.

BakerHostetler Adds Antitrust Leader Kenneth Racowski As Partner In Philadelphia

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 13, 2026

BakerHostetler announced that Kenneth Racowski has joined the firm’s Philadelphia office as a partner in its Litigation Practice Group. Racowski will be a member of BakerHostetler’s Antitrust and Competition and Commercial Litigation teams. He will also lead the firm’s private civil antitrust practice.

Paul Hastings Launches Global Sports Practice And Adds Former Baltimore Ravens General Counsel Brandon Etheridge

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 13, 2026

Paul Hastings announced the launch of a global Sports practice and the addition of former Baltimore Ravens Senior Vice President and General Counsel Brandon Etheridge as a partner in its Washington, D.C. office.

DLA Piper Adds André Teixeira To Finance Practice In Washington, DC

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 12, 2026

DLA Piper announced that André Teixeira has joined the firm as a Partner in its Project Finance practice. He is based in the firm’s Washington, DC office.

Latham & Watkins Expands Capital Markets Practice With Byron Rooney And Dan Gibbons

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 12, 2026

Latham & Watkins announced that prominent capital markets partner Byron Rooney will join the firm, along with partner Dan Gibbons, who has already joined. Rooney will serve as Global Vice Chair of the firm’s Capital Markets Practice.