Gibson Dunn buys its way to number two in M&A, and Taft lifts a team out of Stinson

Gibson Dunn landed at number two in the quarter's M&A league tables on roughly three hundred billion dollars of deals, powered by a co-head they brought over from Freshfields six months ago.

Plenty else moved too. Taft lifted a three-partner group out of Stinson in Denver, DLA Piper added a venture capital partner in Palo Alto, K&L Gates picked up an asset management and ETF partner in San Francisco, and Paul Weiss and Holland & Knight each added a tax partner, in DC and Chicago.

On the deal side, OpenAI filed confidentially for an IPO.