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Consolidation isn’t a given. That might seem counter-intuitive after a year that has seen a procession of mergers that put scale at the heart of strategy, but every good thesis has its antithesis.
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The beautiful game is exciting all sorts of investors, even if most of them persist in calling it ‘soccer’. In one camp Latham, Proskauer and, more belatedly, Kirkland (among others) are advising the…
You can measure firms’ appetite for digital transformation by proxy data points. The $500m Kirkland spent on Palantir, for example. Or the number of prompts used a week. Or the extra cost ladled onto…
New York sits at the centre of an increasingly global legal market, but firms are pursuing markedly different routes to growth. This July’s Transatlantic report introduces the New York 100…
Let’s start with a familiar schema. New York is currently the battleground for two models of law firms. (Spoiler alert: Horizon won’t be agreeing with this argument.) On one side there are the firms…
