The Charleston office of global law firm K&L Gates LLP has added Richard A. Farrier Jr. as a partner in its commercial disputes practice. Farrier joins K&L Gates from Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP, where he was Managing Partner of the firm’s Charleston office.

King & Wood Mallesons has bolstered its leading competition practice with the lateral hire of Stephen Ridgeway, one of Australia’s preeminent and most respected competition lawyers.

Paul, Weiss assisted Major League Baseball in the $2.15 billion sale of the Los Angeles Dodgers to Guggenheim Baseball Management as widely reported yesterday by Bloomberg News, ESPN, Fox News, The L.A. Times and Sports Illustrated, amongst others. The new management group consists of Magic Johnson, incoming Dodgers’ President Stan Kasten, and controlling owner Mark Walter, chief executive of Chicago-based Guggenheim Financial.

Faegre Baker Daniels, which now boasts a labor and employment practice that is among the largest in the nation, has added veteran Minneapolis employment litigation attorney Jacqueline A. Mrachek to its ranks.

Our International Corporate Practice Group and London office are pleased to welcome Geraint Lloyd as Partner.

Frost Brown Todd LLC announced today that it is merging with Nashville law firm MGLAW, PLLC, effective June 1, 2012.

Morgan Lewis today announced that Peter Sharp, Nick Greenwood and David Waldron—three leading solicitors whose work involves litigation and all major forms of international arbitration across a number of industries—will join the firm as partners in its Litigation Practice, resident in London. Peter Sharp was most recently the managing partner of another AmLaw 100 firm’s London office, while David Waldron served as overseas co-chair of that firm’s Litigation Department and co-chair of its Oil, Gas, and Energy Dispute Resolution Group.