Deal View: Life after Hatchard – does Skadden hunger to take its peerless M&A team to the next level?
‘Theirs is the biggest succession issue faced by any firm in the City,’ says one Magic Circle partner of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom’s prospects, following the retirement of veteran dealmaker Michael Hatchard (pictured right) at the end of last year. The widely-admired Hatchard did much to make Skadden a US trailblazer in public …