Arnold & Porter announced the opening of its new Seattle office, marking a strategic expansion on the West Coast and reinforcing the firm’s commitment to serve clients in one of the most innovative and rapidly growing markets in the U.S. The office will launch with a four-partner group who bring deep industry knowledge and long-standing client relationships in the Seattle market and experience representing clients in commercial litigation, healthcare and corporate transactions, employment and class action litigation, and other transactional matters.

DLA Piper has appointed private equity veteran Chris Field to its Corporate practice, effective September 2025, in a strategic hire to bolster its global offering.

DLA Piper is pleased to welcome Devan Popat as a Partner in the Real Estate practice. Popat will be based in the Los Angeles office, further bolstering the firm’s real estate capabilities in the region.

International law firm Bird & Bird announces the appointment of Ashok Kumar and Darius Tay as Restructuring & Insolvency (R&I) partners in Singapore, effective 1 August. They will join with a team of lawyers from BlackOak, a boutique law firm which they founded in 2016.

Paul Hastings LLP announced the continued expansion of its market-leading global M&A and private equity platform and Texas footprint with the addition of energy lawyer Peter Hays as a partner in Houston.

“A core strategic priority for our global Corporate and M&A platform is to continue to build in energy M&A, and Houston is vital to that strategy,” said firm Chair Frank Lopez. “Pete has very strong experience in energy M&A and is an instrumental addition, but we will continue to build in Houston in energy M&A with both strategic and asset manager clients.”

Latham & Watkins is pleased to announce that Estelle Philippi will join the firm’s Paris office as a partner in the Transactional Tax Practice. Philippi advises private equity firms, public and private companies, and financial institutions on a variety of complex tax matters, with a particular focus on the tax aspects of domestic and international corporate and finance transactions, M&A, joint ventures, restructurings, and corporate reorganizations.

Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP has added executive compensation lawyer Fishel Schreiber as a shareholder in its Corporate Practice. Based in New York, Schreiber joins from Kirkland & Ellis LLP.

Schreiber has extensive experience handling a wide range of executive compensation matters in mergers and acquisitions transactions, with a particular focus on private equity transactions.

Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP has expanded its Public Finance & Infrastructure and Government Law & Policy practices with the addition of Kostas Poulakidas as a shareholder in its Chicago office. He joins the firm from Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP.

Poulakidas brings deep experience in project and public finance, with a focus on complex infrastructure and real estate development projects, particularly those involving government financing and public-private partnerships (P3s).

Gibson Dunn is pleased to announce that Christopher Harris KC will join the firm as Co-Chair of the International Arbitration and the Judgment and Arbitral Award Enforcement Practice Groups.

Christopher brings over 20 years’ experience in international commercial and investment arbitration as well as extensive advocacy experience before the English (and other) courts, adding further senior advocacy firepower to the firm’s global disputes practice.

We are pleased to announce that Maedhbh Clancy has been appointed as Partner, Head of Knowledge, effective 1 September 2025.

The move marks a return to the firm for Maedhbh, who trained and practised at its headquarters for several years following her qualification. She brings extensive expertise in legal knowledge management and most recently served as Of Counsel at another law firm in Dublin.