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Trading places: latest US moves for Linklaters, Clifford Chance and Ropes

Trading places: latest US moves for Linklaters, Clifford Chance and Ropes
Alex Ryan
Alex Ryan
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23 September 2025
Strategy and managementUnited States

Linklaters’ co-head of Americas energy and infrastructure has left the firm in a double departure to Akin.

Ron Erlichman (pictured), who is joining the US firm in New York, is moving with counsel Nick Atwood, who is making partner at Akin’s Washington DC base.

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