Legal mergers

Sarah Downey

Getting a legal merger over the line is notoriously difficult but once the tie-up is agreed it usually goes through,…

Legal Business

‘Wragge & Co was the Mishcon of its day.’ That statement from a former veteran of the Midlands giant sums…

Legal Business

‘Wragge & Co was the Mishcon of its day.’ That statement from a former veteran of the Midlands giant sums…

Legal Business

Proposed merger promises Birmingham firm significant City presence. The announcement last month that Wragge & Co and Lawrence Graham (LG)…

Jaishree Kalia

It’s not been the ideal launch after the final phase of its high-stakes global merger. Within days of the union…

Legal Business

DAC Beachcroft has expanded its Latin American presence via a merger with Colombian alliance partner De la Torre & Monroy Abogados…

Jaishree Kalia

After months of speculation, Slater and Gordon has finally announced the acquisition of the consumer services and personal injury (PI)…

Mark McAteer

It would create a south-east giant with combined revenues approaching £100m but any potential tie-up between Blake Lapthorn, Boyes Turner…

Legal Business

Just two days after Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and New York-headquartered Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman called off their potentially game…

Jaishree Kalia

The potentially game changing merger between California-based Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and New York-headquartered Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman is off after the…

Legal Business

Hogan Lovells is to combine with South African law firm Routledge Modise, with the union set to go live on 1…

David Stevenson

Wragge & Co at last has the prospect of achieving its long-held dream of securing a substantive City merger, with…

Francesca Fanshawe

After becoming the first multiple-licensed alternative business structure (ABS) last August Irwin Mitchell has acquired personal injury (PI) firm McCool Patterson…

Legal Business

Pannone’s ongoing discussions with Australian-listed Slater & Gordon (S&G) over the sale of its consumer services and personal injury (PI) practice are coming…

Legal Business

Penningtons’ takeover of troubled Manches last month says almost as much about the state of the legal market as it…

Legal Business

Having previously pursued a merger with the now defunct Cobbetts (as it turned out, a lucky reprieve), Pannone’s current discussions…

Legal Business

It’s big, spanning continents, oceans, hugely disparate cultures and a complex governance and profit-sharing model and it’s going live today…

Legal Business

Dentons looks set to secure another substantive merger after management of the firm and US suitor McKenna Long & Aldridge…

Alex Novarese

One of the most prolific merger suitors of recent years – Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe – is at it again…

Sarah Downey

ASX-listed firm Slater & Gordon (S&G) continues to make inroads into the UK’s personal injury (PI) market having confirmed today…