Has the firm mergers landscape shifted?

In the wake of COVID-19, appetite for firm mergers and sales accelerated. Has that trend continued as we now approach a post-pandemic marketplace?     

On this episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, host Jerome Doraisamy welcomes back FMRC director Sam Coupland to discuss how fertile the ground is for buying, selling or merging law firms compared to one year ago, and how best firms looking to be bought can go from being a “goodwill firm to a lockstep firm”.

The pair also reflect on what a bigger firm might need to do to make their offer appealing to smaller firms being bought out, and the need for business owners to consider their own positions when “checkpoints” such as a global pandemic arise.

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