The following column is by Antonio Leal Holguin, Director, Adam Smith, Esq. Antonio is based in Santiago, Chile, and spearheads our Latin America practice. Mergers & Alliances: Proceed with Caution Five Steps for Latin American Firms In our recent Latin...
You know what to do! Please use the comments box at the bottom for any additional thoughts or observations. The most accurate way to characterize origination credit is: A necessary and proper economic incentive for business development A just and fair...
Across the pond from New York our friend Alex Novarese, editor in chief of Legal Business, just published his commentary Associate pay smoke screen: it’s fooling no-one, which notes “the emergence over the last two years of suspiciously co-ordinated attempts by London...
With this column we inaugurate a new and, we hope, long-running feature on Adam Smith, Esq.: A question of the month. Questions will vary, widely we suspect, and we invite readers’ suggestions for suitable future questions. We prefer them to be–and will...
One of the things we do a lot of here—and seemingly more of in the past 24 months or so—is helping firms sort out, reform, amend, optimize, throw-away-and-start-fresh, their partnership compensation systems. And in every engagement of that sort, we try to keep two...
This is a guest column by a very good friend of Adam Smith, Esq., Richard Rapp, who was President and CEO of NERA Economic Consulting for 18 years (1988-2005), during which time the firm grew to global scale. Richard now co-heads Veltro Advisors, a law firm...
