Brian Baxter

September 04, 2014 | The American Lawyer

A trio of Am Law 100 firms are getting the fourth quarter started with a pair of beer industry deals. Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and Moelis & Co.—the new home of Eric Cantor—are advising Heineken on the $1.2 billion sale of its Mexican packaging unit, while Jones Day has taken the lead for private equity firm Riverside on its purchase of a Salt Lake City-based craft brewer.

By Brian Baxter

4 minute read

September 03, 2014 | The American Lawyer

The Magic Circle has had its problems trying to make inroads in the U.S., but Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, one of the London-based legal giants that has perhaps had the most success stateside, is ramping up its bid for transactional work in New York by hiring two former partners from Wall Street stalwarts Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. The new additions come after Freshfields recently saw two partners depart from its U.S. ranks.

By Brian Baxter

6 minute read

September 02, 2014 | The American Lawyer

Weil, Gotshal & Manges, which experienced an exodus of partners in Dallas last year, has made a key corporate hire in the city. The Am Law Daily looks at that move as well as more departures from Bingham McCutchen and Kirkland & Ellis, tie-ups by DLA Piper and Hinshaw & Culbertson and some prominent lawyers leaving public service in our latest look at notable hires from throughout The Am Law 200.

By Brian Baxter

7 minute read

September 02, 2014 | The American Lawyer

Hinshaw & Culbertson, a 460-lawyer regional midwestern Am Law 200 firm based out of Chicago, has agreed to merge on Oct. 1 with California's Barger & Wolen, a 45-lawyer shop that also has outposts in New York and London. The deal, which has been approved by the partnerships of both firms, will give Hinshaw its first overseas office.

By Brian Baxter

4 minute read

August 29, 2014 | The American Lawyer

Two more IP litigation partners leave Kirkland & Ellis, a Bingham McCutchen corporate partner goes in-house, Jones Day scores a Latin American dealmaker and Ropes & Gray grabs a high-profile private equity partner in our latest look at notable hires from throughout The Am Law 200.

By Brian Baxter

7 minute read

August 28, 2014 | The American Lawyer

The Silicon Beach photo messaging service Snapchat was valued at $10 billion this week following an investment from venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Behind the startup's rapid rise to fame are a handful of firms, including Cooley, which does most of Snapchat's outside legal work, and others like Perkins Coie and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan. Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel is the son of two lawyers with Am Law 100 ties.

By Brian Baxter

7 minute read

August 27, 2014 | The American Lawyer

To cement a merger, Bingham offered three years of pay guarantees to McKee Nelson partners.

By Brian Baxter

3 minute read

August 27, 2014 | The American Lawyer

Michael McGuinness, a corporate partner and former head of the Latin American M&A practice at Shearman & Sterling in New York, has left the firm for Jones Day, which over the past year has sought to slake its thirst for south-of-the-border clients by opening an office in Miami and making key lateral hires.

By Brian Baxter

5 minute read

August 26, 2014 | The American Lawyer

After a short stint at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, a pair of former Patton Boggs litigators have joined several former colleagues at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips; a Sidley Austin litigation cochair goes in-house; a former Thelen firm leader retires; and more notable moves from throughout The Am Law 200.

By Brian Baxter

7 minute read

August 25, 2014 | The American Lawyer

In its biggest deal since its $46.8 billion takeover of Genentech in 2009, Swiss drug giant Roche has turned to Davis Polk & Wardwell for counsel on its $8.3 billion buy of suburban San Francisco-based lung disease drug developer InterMune, which is being advised by Cravath, Swaine & Moore and a Chicago IP boutique.

By Brian Baxter

4 minute read