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    • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
      Allen & Overy data hit by hackers in ransomware attack

      The London-headquartered law firm is the latest major corporate targeted by cyber criminals

      Allen & Overy offices in London
    • Monday, 30 October, 2023
      Allen & Overy sells legal tech unit to private equity groups

      UK law firm is latest business to take PE money to help expand non-core units

      City of London skyline
    • Friday, 13 October, 2023
      Allen & Overy and Shearman partners vote through merger

      Tie-up between ‘magic circle’ law firm and US rival creates $3.5bn transatlantic law firm after 99% of votes cast in favour

      Entrance to Allen & Overy offices in London
    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      Special ReportInnovative Lawyers: Europe
      Generative AI: a legal revolution is coming — eventually

      The new tech is not just a tool, it is a ‘game-changer’ for law firms. Plus: Pinsent Masons tops the FT 50 most innovative law firms in Europe

      A female lawyer leaping from a pile of papers to an area of computer tabs
    • Monday, 31 July, 2023
      Legal services
      Profits stall at London’s ‘magic circle’ law firms during US expansion

      Rising salary costs and decline in dealmaking hits earnings at City’s international law firms

      A view of the building where Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has its office on Bishopsgate in the City of London
    • Thursday, 13 July, 2023
      Allen & Overy warns of headwinds as profits drop

      Fall comes as firm embarks on merger with New York’s Shearman & Sterling

      The London headquarters of Allen & Overy
    • Friday, 26 May, 2023
      News in-depthLegal services
      Wim Dejonghe: the Belgian rainmaker sealing A&O’s deal with Shearman

      The magic circle law firm’s senior partner has long held ambitions for a transatlantic merger

      Wim Dejonghe
    • Tuesday, 23 May, 2023
      News in-depthLegal services
      Allen & Overy closes in on American dream with $3.4bn Shearman deal

      Merger between US and UK firms would create a legal giant with almost 4,000 lawyers worldwide

      Montage of London and New York in the background with logos of Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling
    • Monday, 22 May, 2023
      LexMergers & Acquisitions
      Shearman/A&O: legal megamerger would be more huddle than cuddle Premium content

      The firms may need each other so much that they have to combine

      Allen & Overy’s building in Amsterdam
    • Sunday, 21 May, 2023
      Mergers & Acquisitions
      Allen & Overy and Shearman plan merger to create $3.4bn law firm

      Deal is first tie-up between a ‘magic circle’ group and an American rival in more than 20 years

      Allen & Overy’s headquarters in London
    • Friday, 5 May, 2023
      Special ReportAsia-Pacific Innovative Lawyers
      Practice of law: best practice in legal work

      Featuring examples of the most innovative services that lawyers have developed for clients

      Aerial view of the solar power plant on the top of the mountain at sunset
    • Friday, 5 May, 2023
      Special ReportAsia-Pacific Innovative Lawyers
      Asia-Pacific Innovative Lawyers Awards 2023: the winners

      Awards highlights include: cyber security, deal making and the most innovative law firms and individuals

    • Friday, 5 May, 2023
      Special ReportAsia-Pacific Innovative Lawyers
      Challenge of Asia-Pacific complexity is the spur to its creativity

      The need to untangle differences in business culture, politics and regulation means the region’s legal sector is open up to experimentation

    • Friday, 5 May, 2023
      Special ReportAsia-Pacific Innovative Lawyers
      Why legal innovators want to chat about AI

      Breakthroughs in generative artificial intelligence are forcing a rethink of the tech being used by lawyers

    • Thursday, 4 May, 2023
      Special ReportAccelerating Business
      Law firms embrace the efficiencies of artificial intelligence

      Chatbots trained in legal data are already a ‘serious part of the operating model’, say firms

      Allen and Overy’s office at One Bishop’s Square in London’s Spitalfields Market Development
    • Wednesday, 15 February, 2023
      Artificial intelligence
      Allen & Overy introduces AI chatbot to lawyers in search of efficiencies

      Magic circle law firm adopts much-hyped tech to help draft legal documents, but insists move will not replace jobs

      A passenger train on the tracks near London Bridge railway station in London
    • Tuesday, 9 August, 2022
      News in-depthLegal services
      London’s ‘magic circle’ law firms make renewed bid to crack US

      Top firms are making progress but American incumbents will prove hard to disrupt

      New York skyline and logos for Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Clifford Chance and Allen & Overy
    • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
      Chinese business & finance
      China’s ‘homecomers’ herald flow of deals

      Listings for groups expelled from the US are keeping lawyers busy

      An employee of China Mobile Communications Group installs a 5G base station equipment on a building in Zunyi, Guizhou Province of China
    • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
      Legal services
      Legal practitioners’ ideas boost business in the Asia-Pacific region

      The top 10 individuals featured below have looked beyond their specialisms to solve client demands

    • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
      Law
      Australia’s bank probe spurs digital mission

      Lawyers master tech tools to help disgraced banking clients handle information quickly

    • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
      Energy sector
      Ukraine war puts Japan’s clean energy transition at risk

      Legal problem-solving is required to keep sustainable energy goals on track amid geopolitical pressures

      Pedestrians, bicyclists and traffic pass under power lines in a city in Tokyo, Japan
    • Friday, 15 October, 2021
      Law
      Law firms start to take the long view

      DLA Piper and Allen & Overy show the way in responding to clients’ desire for longer-term, big-picture thinking

    • Friday, 15 October, 2021
      Legal services
      How airlines survived to fly another day

      Carriers and their lawyers used legal innovation in a race against the clock

      Urgent: Malaysia Airlines wanted to cut its obligations on aircraft leases quickly
    • Friday, 15 October, 2021
      Legal services
      Forward-looking legal practitioners

      When it comes to innovation, an outside perspective can help

      Diala Minott
    • Friday, 15 October, 2021
      Legal services
      Diversity efforts for lawyers switch from hiring to keeping

      Moves aim to address the uneven experience of different ethnic minorities

      Moving forward: City firms are taking action to try to retain diverse solicitors
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