New York corporate boutique Rayner Rowe has opened a London office.

Based in Great Percy Street, the office will be headed by Margaret Rowe.

Rowe said: "We saw a large gap in the legal market – emerging and mid-market UK and Irish companies that need advice as they ventured into the US to do business." Clients of the firm, which focuses on US, UK and Irish transactions and which only practises US law, include Wilmington Trust, Radio and Trace, and Wisdom TV.