The Lawyer’s editor Catrin Griffiths and director of insight Matt Byrne are back from a fact-finding mission in New York, and merger mania is gripping the city’s lawyers.
As firms seek scale, reach and private capital clients, some of the oldest firms in the Big Apple are pondering how a tie up could help their bottom line.
And while private equity investment into firms is all the rage in the UK, in the US it is starting to gain traction as well.
So in the new episode of The Lawyer Podcast, Catrin and Matt recount what they learned on their adventure across New York last week…