by Bruce | March 9, 2007 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Whether or not your firm has a private equity practice, you’re surely familiar with its just this side of astonishing rise over the past half decade or so. And if you’re like me you’ve asked yourself, "Who are those guys?" What...
by Bruce | January 24, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Practice Group Management, Strategy
The coverage has been wall-to-wall, if not deafening, and two things we do not do here at "Adam Smith, Esq." (there are others, trust me) are (1) cover breaking news; and (2) tell you things that we know you already know. So I haven’t yet...
by Bruce | January 4, 2007 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Strategy
I got the news on my BlackBerry early this afternoon, but it’s all over the place now (WSJ, American Lawyer, Bloomberg [where yours truly is quoted]): The Dewey-Orrick merger is not to be. I’m sorry. I felt from the beginning it held great...
by Bruce | December 15, 2006 | Articles, M&A
It’s not every day one is quoted in The New York Times, and I will not feign false modesty. (The context was my 2¢’s on what the Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham/Preston Gates and Ellis merger may have to portend about regional...
by Bruce | December 15, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Strategy
In a piece in this month’s American Lawyer titled "Turning Point," Dan DiPietro, the head of the Citigroup Private Bank’s Law Firm group, provides quantitative financial support for a theory I’ve long held, that our industry is not just...
by Bruce | November 22, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, M&A, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Mergers, globalization, consolidation: I’ve heard all about it. Time to tell me something new. Is that your feeling? Then let’s talk about post-merger leadership, and what you could actually do to make a difference if the seemingly-inevitable comes to...