Legal Business

Sideways – A lateral move in leadership and big US ambitions for Clyde & Co

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Clyde & Co has been on a terrific run of growth in the last five years. With a new senior partner installed and his predecessor in the US, will the firm be able to maintain momentum?

When Legal Business sat down with Clyde & Co’s new senior partner Simon Konsta in November, the firm’s notoriously hands-on chief executive Peter Hasson was on holiday in Miami. While discussing Hasson’s intense focus on the day job, Konsta is asked if Hasson will be able to resist checking in. Minutes into the interview, Konsta’s phone starts ringing. It’s Hasson.