Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker is the latest firm to open a second office in China after nabbing Jones Day‘s Shanghai partner-in-charge and a real estate funds specialist from Morgan Stanley. Former Jones Day partner Mitchell Dudek has been appointed chair of Paul Hastings’ new Shanghai office. Former chief financial officer and chief operating officer […]

Clifford Chance has lost co-head of private funds Stephen Ross to the asset management arm of client Man Group, a global provider of alternative investment products. Jason Glover, who currently shares the role, will head private funds when Ross leaves to join Man Investments as global head of legal structuring and corporate finance in December. […]

This was meant to be the year that pro bono “went mainstream”. At least, that was how one enthusiastic advocate, Terence Black, managing director of BAE Systems Capital and vice-chair of the Solicitors Pro Bono Group, put it when he spoke to The Lawyer in June as the second National Pro Bono Week kicked off. […]