The Third Wave – high stakes City deals for Akin and Cooley highlight changing tactics Tom Moore10 April 2015Corporate and M&A With Akin Gump and Cooley securing multimillion-pound teams, a wave of new entrants to the City are re-writing the playbook for expansion in London. What is driving the new breed?Your limit of 1 article in 30 days is up. Please login for full access or subscribe. Corporate users - click here for simple access (no password needed). For more information, please contact [email protected] Related ContentMore in this categoryRevolving Doors: Three leave Taylor Wessing after merger vote, while Gibson Dunn taps Freshfields for APAC rebuildTrading places: latest US laterals for Simpson Thacher, Dechert and A&O ShearmanUS firms top UK and global rankings in record year for M&A megadealsTaylor Wessing recruits RPC rainmaker in first hire since merger announcementSlaughters and Clifford Chance lead as Schroders agrees to £9.9bn takeoverInside Ropes & Gray’s calculated European PE expansionTransatlantic firms outstrip peers on five-year PEP growth, LB100 data revealsThe LB100 ranked by PEP: firms push partner profits to new heights as associate pay debate rumbles onA good time to be mid-tier: private equity interest on the rise as mid-market thrives