Salans is poised to take on five of Altheimer & Gray’s remaining offices, giving the firm a presence in four new Central and Eastern European jurisdictions and its first office in Asia. The acquisition of the new offices in Prague, Bucharest, Bratislava and Istanbul will take Salans’ number of Eastern European offices to 10. It […]

Baker & McKenzie has taken to 19 the number of international partners in its Paris office, hiring Ernst & Young partner Raphaele Francois-Poncet. She joins the securities and capital markets group, where she will advise French and foreign companies on M&A transactions, capital market calls and liability under the Financial Security and Sarbanes-Oxley Acts.

Chicago’s legal market is continuing to contract, with local firm Seyfarth Shaw taking over D’Ancona & Pflaum. Seyfarth, which voted through the merger last Thursday (9 September), will house all D’Ancona’s 60 lawyers, including 34 partners, in its Chicago office, which houses 270 attorneys. However, it is expected that there will be some redundancies from […]