How Brexit Could Affect Law Firm Merger Talks

Merger talks between U.S. firm Hunton & Williams and U.K.'s Addleshaw Goddard have been held up because of... Brexit?

That’s the news out of London, according to Addleshaw partners speaking with the U.K. publication Legal Week .

As is usually the case when firm partners speak about merger talks winding down, it’s a sensitive issue and one that’s received with a fair degree of skepticism among legal consultants, recruiters and journalists.

This was also the case when Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman and Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe broke off talks in 2013, citing insurmountable client conflicts .Some speculated at the time, that the ...