by Bruce | September 28, 2004 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Strategy
"Wanted: Law Firm to Sue the UK’s Big Five Banks" is the headline of this piece at The Lawyer. They report that, per their "research," 26 of the top 30 UK firms in the "Lawyer 100" are conflicted out of acting against...
by Bruce | September 24, 2004 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, M&A
"Mergers 101" prompted some reader response curious for more detail behind my concluding observation about how the composition of the AmLaw 200 as of 2004 differed from that as of 1999. Here are the raw numbers: 11 firms were acquired 3 dissolved 8...
by Bruce | September 23, 2004 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, M&A
If you read only one article this quarter about mergers, this should be it. Not only is the author the former managing partner of Andersen Legal (until it imploded), before that he was managing partner of Clifford Chance. Sure, he comes from a UK-centric...
by Bruce | September 22, 2004 | Articles, Finance, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
"Finance is the language of business decisions." True, or merely the imperialistic mindset of the MBA at work? Agree or disagree, without some common language, decisions will not be made, and finance is at least a language tied to relatively...
by Bruce | September 20, 2004 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, M&A, Strategy
"You ain’t seen nothing yet?" That’s our instinctive reaction to the news over the weekend that Boston’s Ropes & Gray may be about to acquire the venerable New York IP shop, Fish & Neave. Fish & Neave would be only...
by Bruce | September 17, 2004 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership
Starting this past summer, Associate Professor of Law William Henderson, of the Indiana University School of Law—Bloomington and I have been working behind the scenes on the "Law Firm Research Project." Prof. Henderson teaches a course called...