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European expansion: Speechlys opens second Swiss base as Pinsents and OC bolster Euro offices through lateral hires

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Sarah Downey
4 September 2013
EuropeSpeechly Bircham

It’s been a year of highs and lows for private client firm Speechly Bircham which, after enduring flat revenues for 2012/13 and unsuccessful merger talks with rival private client firm Withers earlier in the year, has opened an office in Geneva this week. Meanwhile, both Pinsent Masons and Osborne Clarke have made key strategic hires to European offices.

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