‘We want to use this combination to forge a new global elite,’ Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) CEO Justin D’Agostino tells Legal Business as he discusses the firm’s ambitious merger plans with New York’s Kramer Levin.
Heralding the planned union as ‘the first real transatlantic and transpacific merger’, D’Agostino stresses that the deal offers ‘a winning trifecta: global disputes and global transactions on day one, a high-quality US law firm, and alignment over ambitions for growth.’
