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Job Description: Managing Partner
The following column is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq., LLC—Bruce We were wondering what a help-wanted ad for a Managing Partner[1] would look like; knowing of course, that we’ll never see one. For better or worse, it remains unthinkable for a law... read more +Happy Birthday, Adam Smith!
Well, OK, recordkeeping around births and deaths was approached a bit more casually 299 years ago, but June 5 is the consensus best guess. And here at Adam Smith, Esq., we are sticking to it!
Recession? Time for Scenario Planning!
This article was co-written with Janet Stanton, Partner. As you know, we have recently published our thoughts on the likelihood of a recession in the United States: Reasonably high, in a nutshell. We won’t rehearse our reasoning here in detail, but the root cause...
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M&A, Globalization, and Now That “Other Thing”
Written with Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq. In our first installment in this two-part series, M&A, Globalization, and Another Thing, we posited that although M&A is cyclical, and may be turning down from its stratospheric (and unsustainable) peak of...
M&A, Globalization, and Another Thing
Of late we've gotten a number of queries from reporters asking us if we think the M&A/private equity investment tsunami of the last year and a half or more has peaked. A wise friend once advised that volunteering forecasts could be performed safely so long as you...
