Following the completion of its 2025 merger, McDermott Will & Schulte announced its first new partner class on Friday, elevating 13 professionals to counsel and 74 attorneys to partner ranks. According to the firm, this is a 32% increase over the previous combined promotion rounds of legacy companies Schulte Roth & Zabel and McDermott Will…

Weil has added Antonia Tzinova, a national security attorney, as a partner in its regulatory transactions group located in Washington, D.C.

According to Goodwin, the firm’s approach aims to combine legal services with in-depth, sophisticated industrial knowledge. The firm’s fiscal year financial results show that the plan is effective.

Conor Larkin from Morgan Lewis & Bockius has joined Hogan Lovells as an M&A partner for bio sciences and energy corporations. Larkin will work from the company’s locations in Houston and Philadelphia.

Major contracts for Latham & Watkins are increasing as Germany’s infrastructure spending binge and restored stability bring an end to decades of fiscal restraint.

A partner from Kirkland & Ellis has joined Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, bolstering the firm’s corporate bench in London.

Near its current 435,000 square foot facility on Avenue of the Americas, Latham & Watkins leased a new 119,082 office space. In Q3, Lewis Brisbois and Steptoe both agreed to leases to move their headquarters completely. Squire Patton Boggs expanded its office by over 10,000 square feet.

Due to the former franchisees’ ongoing operation of nutrition stores, GNC Holdings filed a lawsuit for trademark infringement and breach of contract. The lawsuit claims that the defendants are using GNC’s trademarks illegally at their new locations after the franchise has ended.

As a borrower on a US$75 million secured financing facility from British International Investment, Mayer Brown has advised Blueleaf Energy, a pan-Asian renewable energy platform and independent power producer (IPP) owned by a Macquarie Asset Management managed fund, in order to finance expansion and investment in nearly 2GW of renewable energy assets throughout India.

BlackRock’s funds and accounts have received advice from Hogan Lovells about a financing transaction that offers a lending facility to Omega Pharma S.r.l., a 21 Invest portfolio company that specializes in the creation and marketing of food supplements, medical devices, and cosmetics.