Shearman enter Africa with A&O tie-up

Law firm merger market heating up as client fees continue to be squeezed.

For the last 2 years, we’ve been predicting lots of law firms to merge, and have been let down a little by not getting the volume and the big headline-making deal. But now we got it!

See the screenshot below that we released in January (see point number 10)

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But why are we so adamant that we will see more and more law firm merg…