Two lawyers with experience across regulatory, criminal and white-collar matters are leaving public service to join Morgan Lewis on the East Coast, targeting the civil and regulatory, and securities litigation markets.

A pair of litigation and international arbitration practitioners with substantial tenures at leading firms have joined Akin Gump, strengthening its profile in Greater China and the Middle East.

Akin Gump’s energy regulation, markets and enforcement practice head has moved to Allen & Overy.

The ICLG.com Global Class Actions Symposium began with a look at how and why the use of collective actions has grown around the world in recent years.

Changes in the law and market conditions mean that class actions are on the rise across the European Union and United Kingdom, write Richard Hornshaw, Mark Dawkins, Jenny Arlington and Jay Jamooji from Akin Gump in London.

An SEC veteran is the second recent hire to bolster the regulatory practice at Kirkland & Ellis in Washington.

An Akin Gump partner with extensive trial and alternative dispute resolution experience has joined Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Los Angeles.

A Houston insolvency boutique founder and name partner with extensive energy sector experience has joined K&L Gates.

Growth in the London litigation market is the target for Eversheds Sutherland, with the hire of two partners who bring corporate and telecoms disputes experience.

The head of Hogan Lovells’ government contracts and education industry groups has moved his practice to Akin Gump in DC.

A partner with over two decades’ disputes experience has left Greenberg Traurig to join Arnold & Porter’s complex litigation group in Texas, while an appellate litigator has returned to private practice at Akin Gump after nine years in public service.

A group of three lawyers has left an intellectual property protection and enforcement boutique to join the Washington, DC-headquartered multinational, bringing particular skills in the contentious sphere.