by Bruce | January 27, 2012 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Lots of ink has been spilled lately about how M&A activity in the legal sector has picked up. Let’s stipulate that’s true. I for one believe it to be the case, and have been involved in more conversations along those lines in the last several...
by Bruce | January 4, 2012 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Strategy
The always-informative, occasionally juicy New York Times DealBook, written by the tireless and uber-connected Andrew Ross Sorkin, had a year-end wrapup yesterday of 2011 global M&A activity, including a table listing the top 15 law firms (more below), but here...
by Bruce | December 29, 2011 | Articles, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
Every once in awhile–and the calendar’s odometric rollover from one year to the next is as good an occasion as any–it’s wise to stand back and try to gain a little perspective. So it is with Brian Arthur’s October 2011 piece in The...
by Bruce | December 16, 2011 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
The BBC evidently does an annual review of the economic year as part of “BBC Newsnight,” and they’ve posted the top economists graphs of 2011, “sharing insights into the year’s extraordinary financial developments, particularly in the...
by Bruce | December 13, 2011 | Articles, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
Imagine an industry finding itself characterized as follows: “The good old days of the industry are gone forever.” “Even an improved global economic climate is unlikely to halt efforts to contain spending.” “These factors suggest that the...
by Bruce | November 19, 2011 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Strategy
We have a quick update on our earlier survey about the future of the Eurozone: In sum: 36% of you think we’ll muddle through, but followed very closely by 32% of you who think the entire benighted structured, flying in the face of 1,000 years of history,...
