In & Out and Appointments

DLA Piper hires Calum Smyth as partner in its IP and Technology practice. Smyth, a patent litigator with 25 years' experience, joins from Wiggin LLP t...

DLA Piper adds Josh Seidenfeld as Chair of its Northern California Corporate and Securities practice. He will advise life sciences and technology comp...

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer has hired Ben Thompson in Singapore as a partner in project finance. He will join the firm's energy, finance and projec...

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP hires Richard Wright as a tax partner in New York to bolster tax equity, project development and tax credit transfe...

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP has hired Adrian Chiodo as a leveraged finance partner in London; he will work on leveraged finance, private credit...

Baker Botts adds Cody Carper as partner in its Houston office to co-chair the Oil and Gas Practice, focusing on upstream and midstream transactions, e...

Ropes & Gray adds Rachel Strickland as Global Chair of Restructuring and partners Daniel Forman, Andrew Mordkoff and Andrew Minear to its New York res...

Fidal hires partners Marie Trécan (Financing and corporate law) and Yannis Samothrakis (Insurance) to its Paris office.

Simon Associés recruits Catherine Verneret to its Intellectual Property, Digital, Compliance & Data department; she will work on IP and data matters,...

Kinstellar hires Oleksandr Frolov in Kyiv as Partner and Head of Dispute Resolution; he joins from Asters where he was Counsel (2020–2026).

Arfé Avocats appoints Arthur Beldi as a collaborator (awaiting swearing-in) to its tax and tax criminal law practice, where he will assist clients on...

BIP Law and Tax recruits Jean-Paule Castagno and Andrea Alfonso Stigliano to form its White Collar, Investigations & Compliance department, focusing o...