Mergers and Office Openings: UK Firms Seek Growth in the US
When Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling announced last month their agreement to merge, it was big news on many fronts. Purely on its own terms, the prospect of a combined transatlantic firm with nearly 4000 attorneys was notable. The fact that Shearman had finally found a merger partner, after extensive talks with Hogan […]
A Changing London Landscape for U.S. JDs
As a former associate with Cleary Gottlieb’s Paris office and a Senior Director heading up Lateral Link’s London and Paris recruiting practices, I have been working with U.S. lawyers looking to move to Europe for the last 15 years. In 2014, Above the Law published my series on Planning for a Legal Career Overseas (Part […]