In Hungary, Allen & Overy’s management seems to prefer getting its hands dirty directly. So much so that senior partner David Morley has named the firm’s local subsidiary Morley Allen & Overy Iroda. This is apparently a longstanding tradition in Hungary, as his predecessor Guy Beringer had christened the firm Beringer Allen & Overy Iroda.
Tulkinghorn is still deciding whether this is senior partner megalomania or an
archaic Hungarian legal requirement for naming law firms. How about Clifford Childs? Or Freshfields Burke-Morton-Mettenheimer, anyone?
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Anonymous | 15-Sep-2008 10:48 pm
megalomania
It is simply an archaic Hungarian legal requirement to have the family name of a partner (of course not necessarily that of the senior partner) in the name of the law firm. A&O could also allow local partners to have their names there.
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