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Clifford Chance adds employment partner from DLA Piper
Global law firm Clifford Chance has added a new employment partner in Sydney, who joins from BigLaw rival DLA...
13 May 2025
By Lauren Croft
Clifford Chance names new Aussie managing partner
Global law firm Clifford Chance has appointed a new managing partner to oversee its Australian offices, who will assume...
14 April 2025
By Grace Robbie
Gender pay gaps getting worse in Aussie law firms
Australia’s biggest law firms had their gender pay data exposed for the second year in a row. Here, Lawyers Weekly...
04 March 2025
By Naomi Neilson
HFW hires Clifford Chance counsel as new partner
Global law firm HFW has moved to bolster its international construction practice with the hire of a disputes partner...
23 October 2024
By Jerome Doraisamy
Partner to fight termination by Clifford Chance
A partner who was recently terminated by Clifford Chance, following allegations of “serious misconduct”, is...
10 July 2024
By Jerome Doraisamy
Clifford Chance fires partner following ‘serious misconduct’ allegations
Global law firm Clifford Chance has terminated one of its Perth-based partners following an internal investigation into...
02 July 2024
By Jerome Doraisamy
Clifford Chance names 2 new partners, 4 new counsel in Australia
Global law firm Clifford Chance has promoted lawyers to its partnership and counsel level, with six Australians being...
09 May 2024
By Jerome Doraisamy
Ashurst takes partner from Clifford Chance
Global law firm Ashurst has appointed a new senior commercial litigation partner in Sydney....
26 March 2024
By Grace Robbie
Hamilton Locke adds 2 partners for regulatory services offering
International law firm Hamilton Locke has continued to grow, appointing partners for its Sydney and Melbourne offices...
20 February 2024
By Jerome Doraisamy
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Clifford Chance adds partner from HSF
International law firm Clifford Chance has appointed a senior real estate and infrastructure partner from BigLaw rival...
15 September 2023
By Jerome Doraisamy
Clifford Chance hires partner from Clayton Utz
International law firm Clifford Chance has appointed an antitrust and competition partner from fellow BigLaw firm...
08 June 2023
By Jerome Doraisamy
What the rise of offshore wind projects means for legal work
Following an uptake in offshore wind projects and related legal transactions in recent years, one partner said that as...
01 June 2023
By Lauren Croft
When will global firms publish gender pay gap data?
New legislation requires the gender pay gap data of Australian businesses with 100 or more employees to be published....
09 May 2023
By Lauren Croft
Watson Farley & Williams hires counsel from Clifford Chance as new partner
BigLaw firm Watson Farley & Williams has appointed a new partner for its international disputes practice, who comes...
20 April 2023
By Jerome Doraisamy
Tech impacting ‘every area of business in every sector’
International law firm Clifford Chance has published the second edition of its Guide to Technology Disputes in Asia...
10 February 2023
By Lauren Croft
Five V Capital invests in BioPak
Australian private equity fund manager Five V Capital has been advised on its investment in and partnership with...
11 January 2023
By Jerome Doraisamy
Partners Group sells CWP Renewables to Squadron Energy
In what global law firm Clifford Chance is calling “Australia's largest renewable energy deal to-date”, CWP...
28 December 2022
By Emma Musgrave
Clifford Chance names new senior partner
Global law firm Clifford Chance has elected a new senior partner for a four-year term, commencing in the new...
08 December 2022
By Jerome Doraisamy
Global law firms team up to launch new association
Twenty-two global law firms have united to launch the Business and Human Rights Lawyers Association (BHRL), in a move...
30 November 2022
By Lauren Croft
Biocare Projects signed on for world’s largest biochar production project
International law firm Clifford Chance has advised Biocare on a carbon removal scheme with ASX-listed timber company...
13 September 2022
By Jerome Doraisamy
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