By Laura Stewart Liberty

Pharmaceutical technology company Diaceutics PLC has hired a lawyer with in-house experience at Sandoz and Novartis as its general counsel.

By Sue Reisinger

Deutsche Bank AG on Tuesday said a senior partner at Freshfields LLP who specializes in corporate criminal defense will become its new general counsel on Sept. 15.

By Ashish Sareen

McDermott Will & Emery LLP has hired a senior in-house lawyer from German pharmaceutical group Merck KGaA as its $2.8 billion merger with Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP nears completion.

By Ashish Sareen

DAC Beachcroft said Thursday that its global head of insurance would become the firm's first new managing partner in a decade later in the year.

By Ashish Sareen

Norton Rose Fulbright said Wednesday that it has been reappointed to Carlsberg Group's global legal panel and will provide legal services to the brewer for the next three years.

By Marialuisa Taddia

The gravitational pull of private equity in the legal sector is drawing a rising number of general counsel from investment companies into law partnerships, with no signs of the trend slowing down as firms look to capitalize on the lucrative sector, recruiters say.