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Comment: HSF – At least one Down Under revolution worked

Comment: HSF – At least one Down Under revolution worked
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Legal Business
13 February 2017
Legal mergersComment

As Barclays sifts through the wreckage of King & Wood Mallesons‘ European practice and claims of fresh departures swirl around Ashurst, you have to say that the marriage of Herbert Smith and Australian leader Freehills could have gone worse. A lot worse.

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