Ashurst’s quest for a US merger has been one of the longest-running stories in the legal world, with the firm linked to a host of potential partners over the past 25 years, including Latham & Watkins, Fried Frank and Sidley.
While those firms are well known on both sides of Atlantic, the London market is less familiar with Perkins Coie, which was this week confirmed as Ashurst’s US merger partner, given that the US firm only launched in the City last year with the hire of private equity veteran Ian Bagshaw.
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