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AGRD sets its sights on UK as private equity-backed legal group eyes £200m firms

AGRD sets its sights on UK as private equity-backed legal group eyes £200m firms

‘We knew when we launched last autumn that this was something that hadn’t been done before, and that we would probably take the market by surprise,’ says AGRD chief executive Maria-Pia Hope.

Last year, while much of the attention around private equity’s advance into the legal sector was focused on the UK and US markets, AGRD Partners (pronounced ‘agreed’) – the legal group backed by Nordic private equity firm Axcel – launched with six Swedish member firms: Allié, Born, Morris Law, Next, Synch and TM & Partners.

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