DLA Piper’s finance partners are being encouraged to participate in cross-office and cross-practice collaboration within a new framework called Project Connect, led by Martin Bartlam, who takes over as the firm’s international finance head on 1 May.

Collaboration, which will be measured through statistics as well as the behaviours of individual partners, will be part of the firm’s existing remuneration structure, not isolated in the sense of a bonus pot. Partners outside the finance and projects practice are not part of the programme.

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Madeleine Farman and Victoria Young sit down with Europe chair David Evans (pictured) to discuss laterals, integration and the next steps in the region

After its recent haul of new hires, it is hard to believe Goodwin Procter’s 119-lawyer offering in Europe began in 2011 with one partner, a telephone and a desk in London. Europe chair David Evans joined Goodwin after a 26-year stint at Ashurst, where he had served as a board member. One month later he was followed by colleague Samantha Lake Coghlan, a real estate funds partner. It was nearly a year before they gained their next lateral partner, Linklaters’ global co-head of real estate Joe Conder.

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