By Matt Perez

Addleshaw Goddard LLP announced Tuesday that it hired the former head of law tech and chief knowledge and innovation officer at U.K. law firm Macfarlanes as a financial services partner with a focus on bolstering its tech offerings to clients.

By James Boyle

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP has grown its international antitrust practice with the recent additions of two attorneys in the firm's Washington, D.C., and London offices.

By Ashish Sareen

Squire Patton Boggs LLP has hired a senior partner from Dentons' private equity and corporate team to boost its services in Germany.

By Anna Sanders and Aebra Coe

Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP will open an office in Charlotte, North Carolina, as a part of a larger group of eight partners focused on collateralized loan obligations joining the firm from Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP in the U.S. and U.K., Law360 Pulse has learned.

By Hanna Vioque

HGF Ltd. has welcomed three new patent partners to its Munich and Paris offices, after securing a private equity investment in its bid to grow in the European intellectual property space.

By Hanna Vioque

Five German patent partners at Taylor Wessing LLP are poised to leave the firm in the fall to launch their own legal outfit called Pentarc.