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Planning to ‘make a big impact’: Cooley raids Edwards Wildman and MoFo’s City offices to launch in London

Legal Business
Legal Business · 12 January 2015 · 3 min read
Strategic recruitment Edwards Wildman Palmer Cooley Troutman Pepper Locke

US firm Cooley has made its long-awaited entrance to the London legal market, taking partners from Morrison & Foerster and Edwards Wildman Palmer to create a 55-lawyer UK practice.

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