Boston Consulting plans Euro legal team overhaul
Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is planning to ramp up its European legal team as the firm moves to reduce its external legal spend and review its advisers. The management consulting group, which has more than 60 offices worldwide, is set to bring in three new legal positions in Europe - including a continental legal chief. The move will mark a departure for BCG, as legal chief Jeremy Barton, who joined the organisation in May last year, is currently the only lawyer in BCG's seven-strong team based outside the US. Barton, who was previously global general counsel at Ernst & Young, is leading the initiative, with the new lawyers expected to be in place within the next few months.
January 22, 2009 at 12:32 AM
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Bluechip consultant moves to bring more Europe work in-house
Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is planning to ramp up its European legal team as the firm moves to reduce its external legal spend and review its advisers.
The management consulting group, which has more than 60 offices worldwide, is set to bring in three new legal positions in Europe – including a continental legal chief.
The move will mark a departure for BCG, as legal chief Jeremy Barton (pictured), who joined the organisation in May last year, is currently the only lawyer in BCG's seven-strong team based outside the US. Barton, who was previously global general counsel at Ernst & Young, is leading the initiative, with the new lawyers expected to be in place within the next few months.
He will then look at reviewing relationships with external advisers later in the year. BCG has close ties with firms including Norton Rose, Linklaters and Mayer Brown, with the consultant also working closely with Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr in the US.
Barton told Legal Week: "At the moment we probably do not have the right ratio of external to internal in terms of resourcing. We are reducing external spend as we review our team internally.
"We will examine our historical relationships and see if they are right and, if necessary, deepen them or change them. I feel it will be essential to have one or two international law firms that understand our business, structure and global ambitions. International firms can help leverage and organise local legal advice."
Before joining Ernst & Young, Barton worked at legacy firm Andersen, where he was general counsel for Europe and then deputy global general counsel.
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