Maynard Nexsen Adds M&A Strength to its Health Care and Life Sciences Team

With John Erwin joining the firm as a shareholder in its Health Care and Life Sciences practice area, Maynard Nexsen is delighted to announce that the company’s strengths in corporate, transactional, mergers and acquisitions, and health care regulatory and compliance matters have been further strengthened.

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Mayer Brown Deepens Tokyo Buildout with Fresh AO Shearman Partner Hires

With the addition of partners Toshiro Mochizuki and Kana Morimura from A&O Shearman, Mayer Brown has resumed its hiring drive in Tokyo, strengthening the team around newly appointed Tokyo managing partner Masahisa Ikeda and highlighting a more purposeful rebuilding of its Asia platform.

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Akin Attorneys Author Bloomberg Law Article Examining Limits on Prediction Market Prosecutions

Akin White Collar Defense & Government Investigations co-head Katherine Goldstein, senior counsel Jack Murphy, and litigation law clerk Will Bernstein co-wrote the article “Prediction Market Prosecutions May Be Curbed by Decades —Old Case,” which was published by Bloomberg Law. The paper looks at the legal challenges that federal prosecutors may have when pursuing insider trading…

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Gibson Dunn Secures Multi-Billion Dollar Victory for Luminant Energy in Winter Storm Uri Litigation at Supreme Court of Texas

On March 27, 2026, Gibson Dunn persuaded the Supreme Court of Texas to uphold an earlier appellate ruling that dismissed billions of dollars’ worth of claims against the Texas generation industry in an MDL with more than 200 cases and 20,000 plaintiffs. This victory was obtained on behalf of client Luminant Energy Company, LLC in…

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Hogan Lovells advises Serica Energy Plc on its acquisition of UK oil and gas assets and infrastructure from TotalEnergies

Serica Energy Plc has received advice from Hogan Lovells regarding the completion of its purchase of TotalEnergies’ operating interests in the onshore Shetland Gas Plant and offshore oil and gas fields west of the Shetland Islands.

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Baker McKenzie Advises APM Terminals on First Seaport Investment in Vietnam

APM Terminals, a division of A.P. Moller-Maersk, has received advice from Baker McKenzie Vietnam regarding its purchase of a 49% share in Hateco Hai Phong International Container Terminal (“HHIT”), the biggest and most sophisticated deep-water port in North Vietnam, which includes two new deep-water berths in the Lach Huyen neighborhood of Hai Phong City.

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Akin Continues Saudi Arabia Expansion with Addition of Ibrahim Siddiki

Akin announced that Ibrahim Siddiki and Alexander Malahias have joined the company as co-partner-in-charge of its Riyadh office, furthering the firm’s strategic expansion in Saudi Arabia and bolstering its capacity to assist customers spearheading the Kingdom’s economic transition.

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Akin Adds Former Top Appropriations Staffer Jen Becker-Pollet to Leading Lobbying & Public Policy Practice in Washington, D.C.

Jen Becker-Pollet, a former clerk and subcommittee staff director at the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, joined Akin today as senior counsel in its well-known lobbying and public policy practice in Washington, D.C. The addition of Jen improves the firm’s capacity to assist clients in negotiating the increasingly complicated federal financing landscape.

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