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  • 1 week ago | law.com | Rick Mitchell

    Helped by one of Europe’s most stable governments and a push for scale in a rapidly digitalizing market, Italy-related M&A is booming with deal counts up by around 40% from their Covid level. Nowhere is that more true than in the country’s banking and finance sector, which has seen a wave of M&A transactions that have generated business for law firms.

  • 2 weeks ago | law.com | Rick Mitchell

    A&O Shearman’s partners elected Madrid-based corporate and M&A partner Ignacio Hornedo Villalba to take over as Spain managing partner on November 1. Hornedo joined A&O Shearman precursor firm Allen & Overy straight out of law school in September 2005 and became partner in May 2018. He will take over from current co-managing partners Antonio Vázquez-Guillén and Ignacio Ruiz-Cámara.

  • 2 weeks ago | law.com | Rick Mitchell

    Berlin-based artificial intelligence startup Noxtua has opened a new office in Paris as it looks to expand the reach of what it touts as its “sovereign legal AI” for Europe. The Paris office is headed by Joséphine Mansour, who has served as general counsel at several companies and previously was an associate at two firms in Big Law.

  • 2 weeks ago | law.com | Rick Mitchell

    Berlin-based artificial intelligence startup Noxtua has opened a new office in Paris as it looks to expand the reach of what it touts as its “sovereign legal AI” for Europe. The Paris office is headed by Joséphine Mansour, who has served as general counsel at several companies and previously was an associate at two firms in Big Law.

  • 2 weeks ago | law.com | Rick Mitchell

    Norton Rose Fulbright has added a six-lawyer global projects team from Eversheds Sutherland in Paris, including partners Sindhura Swaminathan and Olivier Le Bars and four associates. The team advises banks, global financial institutions, and development finance institutions on complex, cross-border projects and project financings in the energy, infrastructure and natural resources sectors.

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Rick Mitchell @LegalAvocadoRM
15 May 25

Kim Kardashian brought in legal heavyweights including former star Cooley partner Michael Rhodes as she took the stand in a Paris trial of 10 people accused of robbing her of millions in jewelry during a 2016 heist at the height of Paris Fashion Week. https://t.co/xJZuY7CpuE

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