Credit: Ian/Adobe Stock The Disruptors: How Paul Weiss and Freshfields are Transforming the Global Elite Race
They have starkly different backgrounds. But both firms have succeeded in ways that other firms have not when breaking into significant foreign markets. Leaders at both firms explain how.
September 19, 2024 at 06:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.com International
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have managed to do in recent years what some law firms have yet to achieve over decades: disrupting the status quo in a legal market outside their home turf, attracting the top of the local talent, and bringing on key business in that market.
Leaders of both law firms in interviews pointed to the importance of gaining laterals with credibility or reputation in each market. A look at each firm's strategy—Paul Weiss' in the U.K. and Freshfields' in the U.S.—indeed shows similarities and their road to growing market share, as well as the continuing challenges ahead for the two market disruptors.
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