Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day.
I doubt that Cadwalader will be the last firm that needs to find a merger partner to survive.
— A Biglaw senior partner, in anonymous comments given to Law.com, concerning Cadwalader’s recently announced merger with Hogan Lovells. Kent Zimmermann, a strategic adviser on the Hogan Lovells-Cadwalader merger, noted that even more merger talks are going on behind the scenes, including between Am Law 50 firms and more transatlantic partners.
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