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Merry Christmas from us and our pets to you all...

As revealed by Alex Taylor earlier this month, the fate of Kramer Levin’s Paris team has now been confirmed, with the entire office set to join Morgan Lewis on 1 January 2025.

💰€1.5bn deal news🤝 to close out the day... Leading for buyer Stonepeak were an elite trio of New York and London firms: 1. Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP 2. Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP 3. Hogan Lovells Neel Sachdev and Matthew Merkle, heavyweights of Paul Weiss's London office, led alongside Head of LA Eric Wedel. Hogan Lovells put forward New York-based asset finance partner Mehtap Cevher Conti, who specialises in aviation and transport, alongside Washington DC regulatory partner Ed Fishman. Spanning both sides of the Atlantic, the Simpson Thacher team was led by New York’s Eli Hunt and London’s Paul Foote. On sell-side, Latham & Watkins advised longstanding client The Carlyle Group, with Stefano Sciolla leading in Milan and Alexander Benedetti in Paris. https://lnkd.in/dtpUaqZE

The Christmas break can be a time to put your feet up and relax. But many find it difficult to stop. So for our final podcast of the year, The Lawyer looks at workaholism and why lawyers are so susceptible to it. Featuring James Browning and Paul Arnold.

The top Beyond the Bubble moves of 2024... because there's loads going on beyond the City. Featuring... Nick Dawson & Emma Callow ➡️ Hill Dickinson LLP Justin Coley & team ➡️ Flint Bishop David Hinchliffe ➡️ Wiggin Andrew Johnson & George Parker-Fuller ➡️ DAC Beachcroft Stephen Mackin ➡️ Hill Dickinson Rowan Armstrong & Alex Mason ➡️ Browne Jacobson Oliver Sweeney ➡️ Browne Jacobson Bola Gibson ➡️ Foot Anstey Matt Meyer ➡️ Kingsley Napley

Building on its hire of a Linklaters partner last month, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has recruited a leveraged finance duo from Sidley Austin. The partners joining are Bryan Robson and William Gwyn. They joined Sidley Austin in 2016 from Kirkland & Ellis. Wheatly MacNamara, the managing partner of Simpson Thacher’s London office, said: “The addition of Bryan and Will follows the firm’s hire of leveraged finance partner Dan P. and will bolster our European financing capabilities, providing clients with sophisticated transactional support for critical mandates.”

It's The Lawyer's top 10 moves of 2024! Featuring... Jay Sadanandan & Sam Hamilton ➡️ Sidley Austin LLP Sarah Clark, Angus Walker & Nick Evans ➡️ TLT LLP Samantha Hutchinson ➡️ King & Spalding Tim Powell ➡️ Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP Joseph Curl KC ➡️ South Square Zoë Mernick-Levene ➡️ RPC Mark Knight & Jifree Cader ➡️ Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP Dan Schuster-Woldan ➡️ Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP Mary Lavelle ➡️ Freshfields Philip Bowden ➡️ Proskauer Rose LLP and bonus top European hire Tobias Larisch ➡️ Kirkland & Ellis

EXCL: The Lawyer reveals the new homes of Hogan Lovells Warsaw lawyers as the firm prepares to exit Poland. ⬇️ More details here

The Lawyer's Senior Research & Insight Analyst Lana McMenamin, MSc has just published a round up of The Lawyer's 'Global Risk-Dialogue' Event, hosted in collaboration with Marsh. This event convened a global dialogue on risk, bringing together top practitioners from the legal sector to address pivotal topics, including generative AI, cultural differences, mental health and wellbeing, and supervisory management. With speakers at the event including the likes of Richard Susskind, julia graham, Victoria Watts and Elif Oflaz, you won't want to miss these insights into the risks facing law firms today. https://lnkd.in/ewt6djFj #legal #ai #risk

The Lawyer ’s inaugural Growth List is here, highlighting the work of in-house lawyers making waves at companies at the top of their game and growth. The group hail from a range of companies shooting for the stars when it comes to ambition: VC, biotech, AI, fashion, fintech and beyond. Head to the list to find out more about what it’s really like behind the scenes of these name-grabbing businesses. https://lnkd.in/exMG7bEi Deirdre O'Neill Danny Bloom Elspeth Vincent Kasit Rochanakorn Sally Roberts Sharn Gill Vanessa Vasquez Lucy Tyrrell Roshni Thakkar Tom Hambrett Xavier Langlois Sam Holdsworth Tim Repa-Davies Andreas Kühnke Valesca Molinari Blanche Savary de Beauregard Dr. Jörn Kubalek Dr. Christian Gahr Philip Young