Matthew Roose will become a partner in the Business Restructuring and Reorganization Practice Group at Gibson Dunn’s New York office, the company announced today. Matt is a renowned restructuring attorney with a wealth of expertise representing ad hoc groups of creditors in out-of-court restructurings and Chapter 11 cases.

With great pleasure, Spencer Fane LLP welcomes Mary Clarke as an of counsel attorney to its Washington, D.C. office, where she will grow the National Food and Beverage Law team that joined the firm in March.

Dentons provided advice to Affidea, a pan-European supplier of specialized outpatient healthcare services and diagnostic imaging with 420 locations in 14 countries, regarding the successful sale of its Hungarian subsidiary, Affidea Magyarě Kft., to Medicare, the top private healthcare organization in Hungary.

Girasole Energies received advice from BCLP about the purchase of a portfolio of six photovoltaic projects, including solar canopies for truck parking, spread across many locations of a top industrial building materials firm.

We are happy to announce that Nicholas A. Nastruz has become an Associate at our Chicago office.

We are happy to announce that Katie Kuhn has joined the firm as a member of its Retail Service Group and an Associate in its Chicago office.

Latham & Watkins is adding its fifth lateral partner from Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, this time bringing in an executive compensation, employment & benefits partner. Erica Aho joins the firm in New York, though she plans to move to Los Angeles.

Big Law competition for top real estate partners has accelerated in 2026 amid heightened client demand in their practices and a growing alignment between real estate and energy practices for data center work. Latham & Watkins, Jones Day, and Mayer Brown have all hired real estate partners in the last week.

After eliminating its legacy non-equity partner tier, A&O Shearman is now weighing whether to reintroduce it.

Salesforce’s chief legal officer, Sabastian Niles, says the legal industry is hitting an inflection point on AI, with a growing divide between firms still experimenting and those already reshaping how they deliver services.