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• Akin Gump hires energy and global transactions expert from Vinson & Elkins

  Mar 21 2012 Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has boosted its energy and global transactions team in Houston with the hire of partner Stephen Davis from Vinson & Elkins. Davis is... more

• Women take majority of partner promotions at Wachtel, Cleary and Akin

  Nov 22 2011 Women have constituted the majority of new partners in the promotions rounds at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Akin Gump Strauss... more

• Akin Gump boosts Abu Dhabi finance practice with Norton Rose hire

  Oct 11 2011 US firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has boosted its Abu Dhabi finance practice with the hire of Norton Rose partner Oli Charlesworth. Charlesworth specialises in... more

• Merit list: law firms that offered jobs to 100% of summer associates

  Aug 17 2011 Above The Law has posted a list of firms that have offered jobs to 100 per cent of summer associates, readying themselves to start naming and shaming those firms that... more

• Greenberg Traurig hires real estate expert from Akin Gump

  Jun 10 2011 Greenberg Traurig has boosted its real estate practice with the hire of Peter Miller, who previously headed the real estate and finance practice group at Akin Gump... more

• British firm Speechly Bircham opens in Luxembourg and Zurich

  Jun 06 2011 British firm Speechly Bircham is set to launch its first international offices, opening its doors in both Luxembourg and Zurich. The Luxembourg office will be led... more

• 12 lawyer team from Chadbourne joins Akin Gump

  May 18 2011 Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has raided Chadbourne & Parke for a 12 lawyer team, including partners Kerin Cantwell and Daniel Sinaiko, along with five counsel and... more

• An interview with Prakash Mehta and Robert Nelson of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in India

  May 06 2011 In this articel, Bar & Bench caught up with Prakash Mehta and Robert Nelson, Partners at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, to talk about the firm’s India practice -... more

• Akin Gump and Vinson lead $1.55 billion Texas shale sale

  Mar 24 2011 Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and Vinson & Elkins have taken leading roles on the deal for the $1.55 billion sale of shale assets by Andarko Petroleum to a subsidiary... more

• Akin Gump follows Cravath's bonus scale, delays payment until 2011

  Dec 07 2010 Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has announced its associate bonuses, adopting the Cravath, Swaine & Moore scale, at least in New York. The Bonuses to be paid are as... more

• Akin Gump and Cleary Gottlieb lead $21.5 billion telecom merger

  Oct 07 2010 Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton have taken lead roles on a merger between Amsterdam-based VimpelCom with Weather investments.... more

• Orrick and Akin end merger talks without agreement

  Oct 05 2010 Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld have terminated merger negotiations less than a week after confirming that they were in preliminary... more

• Merger of Akin Gump and Orrick could make waves in NYC

  Sep 30 2010 Following confirmation that Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe are in merger talks, speculation has begun on what impact the combined... more

• US firms consider merger: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe

  Sep 29 2010 US-based law firms Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe are in merger talks, according to representatives from both firms. A deal... more

• Hogan Lovells loses another partner in Moscow

  Aug 09 2010 Hogan Lovells dispute resolution partner Dominic Pellew has left the Moscow office of the firm to join Baker Botts. This is the second high profile departure from... more

• Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld boost renewable energy practice with double hire

  Jul 01 2010 Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has boosted its renewable energy and project finance practices with the hire of two new partners to the firm’s Los Angeles office.... more

• Hogan Lovells Moscow partner takes up with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld

  May 19 2010 Corporate partner Ilya Rybalkin has decided to leave the Moscow office of Hogan Lovells to join up with US firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. Rybalkin is due to... more

• Hogan & Hartson's Geneva office jumps ship ahead of merger with Lovells

  Apr 08 2010 The Geneva office of Hogan & Hartson has abandoned ship ahead of the merger with Lovells, opting instead to join with US firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. The... more

• Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and Baker & McKenzie lead $3.1 billion energy deal

  Mar 23 2010 Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and Baker & McKenzie have secured leading roles in the state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corp’s (CNOOC) $3.1bn investment in... more

• Baker & McKenzie and Akin Gump Stauss Hauer & Feld advise on $3.1 billion energy deal

  Mar 18 2010 Chinese state-owned energy company Cnooc is set to purchase a 50 per cent stake in Bridas Corporation, Argentina's second-largest oil producer. Bridas Corporation has... more

• Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz scores leading role on $3.48 billion energy deal

  Mar 17 2010 The sale of an Appalachian natural gas and oil business from Dominion Reources to Consol Energy Inc will be guided by Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. Consol have a... more

• Paul Weiss, Akin Gump Handling Houghton Mifflin's Debt Restructuring

  Feb 26 2010 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the Boston-based publisher of educational materials, announced earlier this week that it had secured $650 million from new institutional... more

• Akin Gump litigation partner leaves to join Quinn Emanuel

  Apr 16 2009 Andrew Rossman, until this week the co-head of litigation at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, has joined Quinn Emanuel in its New York office. Mr. Rossman indicated... more