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DLA targets Asia Pacific growth via merger with Aussie best friend

@ Vercingetorix - I would be very surprised if even Slaughter and May were not aware of the dangers of becoming too sub-scale. At present Slaughter and May is around a third the size of the largest firm in terms of total revenues, not a great problem in view of their very high profit margins. However if the largest firm was a twentieth the size then that would be a grave threat. The process of globalisation and consolidation in the legal market has a long way to go, and the Chinese are only just begin to enter the market. In ten years' time things will look dramatically different.

28-Jan-2011

3:55 pm