DLA Norway office breaks away with local merger
DLA Piper has lost an office in Norway, with the firm's 21-lawyer Bergen arm breaking off to merge with Norwegian firm Streenstrup Stordrange. The decision taken by the five-partner office to merge with Streenstrup was prompted by a desire to improve local client relationships.DLA Piper is the only major international firm to have successfully made an impact in the Norwegian market. The top 10 UK firm will retain its 70-lawyer base in Oslo.
January 20, 2009 at 06:45 AM
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DLA Piper has lost an office in Norway, with the firm's 21-lawyer Bergen arm breaking off to merge with Norwegian firm Streenstrup Stordrange.
The decision taken by the five-partner office to merge with Streenstrup was prompted by a desire to improve local client relationships.
DLA Piper is the only major international firm to have successfully made an impact in the Norwegian market. The top 10 UK firm will retain its 70-lawyer base in Oslo.
DLA Piper Oslo managing partner Espen Moe said: "The Oslo and Bergen offices have developed very differently in recent years and it was clear that both would benefit from a separation in order to develop their respective clients more effectively."
"In Oslo we have a long and established history of serving national clients needing domestic and cross-border legal advice and international businesses in the market. These clients are well served by our extensive geographic reach worldwide and the separation will enable us to focus our resources on supporting our client base more effectively."
DLA Piper said the decision had been reached amicably between the Oslo and Bergen offices.
The firm reached full integration with its Norwegian ally in September 2006, as the first international firm to merge with a Norwegian practice. Prior to the merger, the Norwegian operation was part of DLA Nordic, which still operates as a financially separate member of the DLA network with an office in Stockholm.
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