‘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.









