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US-EU trade: a decade of opportunities and challenges: 2001-2011
The European Union reported recently that “together, the EU and the USA have the largest bilateral trade and investment relationship in the world, roughly 31% of the world trade and over 53% of the...
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Why now is a good time for US and EU law firms to capture more transatlantic...
A recent survey carried out by Barclays shows the UK’s largest law firms are looking to international markets to achieve growth in 2012 – as reported in Companiesandmarkets.com and Officialwire. “The...
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China begins to invest heavily in Central Europe: how professional services...
In recent months, China has begun to invest more heavily in Central and Eastern Europe. As Spiegel has reported: ”Last month, at the April 26 China-Central Europe-Poland Economic Forum in Warsaw,...
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EU-based public affairs firms: Where to find and how to secure new American...
The most attractive approach to any American company by an EU public affairs firm will be based on that companies commercial interests. And perhaps the best opportunity one can bring to an American...
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Newly proposed changes to French economic policy: How American companies may...
On May 6, 2012, France elected a new President, Francois Hollande, whose platform for governance – as any newly elected leader in any nation’s would – presents both new potential challenges as well as...
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Streamlined EU Venture Capital rules proposed to bolster European economy
“Five years after the start of the financial crisis, the economic situation in Europe remains fragile: still zero growth is expected in Europe this year; unemployment in the euro area is at 11 per cent...
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US private equity: 3 initiatives to secure better European deal flow
“The Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), the premier authority on corporate growth, corporate development and mergers and acquisitions, [hosted] the European Capital Tour in Paris, Amsterdam and...
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EU-US bilateral trade can re-energize law firms on either side of the Atlantic
As Richard Blackden, New York Correspondent for London’s Daily Telegraph recently reported: EU and US policymakers “are [currently] examining whether a comprehensive free trade deal between the two...
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4 key markets for generating US corporate law revenue in 2013
The announcement today that the European Union and the United States will begin negotiations on a new free trade agreement – is a reminder of how important specific key markets are to generating new...
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Are China’s largest law firms going to transform the Brussels legal market?
In the last few months both Dacheng and Yingke, China’s two largest law firms – have entered the Brussels legal market. Dacheng, via a “cooperation arrangement” with Belgium’s Dugardyn & Partners,...
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Mergers will not cure Scottish law firm woes
Herald Scotland reported this week that “senior lawyers at some of Scotland’s largest firms believe more mergers are on the way in 2013 but are warning quality deals will be harder to find.”...
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Have UK law firms given up on growth?
Reuters reported yesterday that: “Top law firms in the UK have lowered their annual income forecasts.. for the 2013 fiscal year to 3.3 percent from 5.7 percent.” Jeremy Black, a partner at Deloitte’s...
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UK law firms encouraged to look to Latin America
A big push is underway to promote the interests of UK law firms overseas – and in particular, in Latin America. In one initiative, The Law Society and the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) have...
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How US law firms can compete in the Brussels lobbying market
As the New York Times reported last October, “American law firms…increasingly see the European Union’s vast apparatus as a vital lobbying opportunity for themselves and their multinational corporate...
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2 places where US lawyers can look for foreign clients in 2014
While America remains on of the single largest recipients of foreign direct investment in the world, the increasing globalization of world economic activity has created a more complex menu of...
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How to create an effective international bilateral law firm marketing alliance
A recent article in The Lawyer highlights the potential attractiveness – as well as pitfalls — of international bilateral law firm marketing alliances. In particular, The Lawyer highlights a recent...
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EU-US trade developments could bode well for transatlantic lawyers
Jay Timmons reported in Forbes earlier in April that: “Last month, German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke of the “payoff” that both sides of the Atlantic would experience from “a big trade zone with few...
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Why Brussels lobbyists should be blogging
“The EU’s financial industry spends more than €120 million per year and employs over 1,700 lobbyists to work in the EU institutions” according to a new report published by the Corporate Europe...
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Why German law firms should be focusing on China’s investors
Australian legal business development professional Richard Smith (RWS_01) shared a fascinating article in Asia Law Portal LInkedIn Group this week – highlighting the immediate opportunity German law...
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Why German law firms should be focusing on China’s investors
Australian legal business development professional Richard Smith (RWS_01) shared a fascinating article in Asia Law Portal LInkedIn Group this week – highlighting the immediate opportunity German law...
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