White & Case Restarts Growth Plan as Firms Capitalize on Hiring

White & Case is aggressively expanding key practice areas while much of the legal industry struggles with the economic fallout of the coronavirus.

The international giant recently signed Holland & Knight partner Germaine Gurr to its global mergers and acquisitions practice in New York. The former deputy general counsel of Schneider Electric who specializes in M&A and private equity transactions joined the firm on the heels of other notable lateral hires announced in recent days.

The pandemic and subsequent recession has forced law firms to retrench and consider their own survival, considerably slowing the lateral market. For some firms, like ...