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Annette Becker, who joined the firm’s new Seattle hub last year after nearly 25 years at K&L Gates, discusses building an M&A platform amid AI-driven deal complexity

Reed Smith has set up shop in Boston, while other firms have hired across capital structure solutions, project finance, corporate and banking practices in the US, Australia and Italy

In a memorandum of understanding, the two agencies have formalised coordination to harmonise rules, and streamline oversight of the US financial markets

New hires were made across the antitrust, M&A, corporate and finance practices in Brussels, London, Charlotte, Washington DC, New York and San Diego

Corporate M&A and PE lawyer Alexandra Wilde has been appointed as managing partner to ‘lead the next phase of growth across the US region’

Perkins Coie, Jenner & Block, WilmerHale and Susman Godfrey remain entangled in legal challenges after the US Department of Justice reversed its position on appeals linked to executive orders issued by the president

New hires were made across the PE, M&A, real estate, antitrust, finance and capital markets practices in the UK and the US

New hires were made in the finance, corporate and M&A practices in the UK and the US