'We want to be a global elite firm' – Herbert Smith Freehills' CEOs on cracking the US and client plans
In the wake of the merger that created Herbert Smith Freehills, the firm's joint chief executives talk about tackling the US and focusing externally again
February 27, 2015 at 03:11 AM
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This October will mark three years since the merger between UK firm Herbert Smith and Australia's Freehills went live. As the firm prepares to welcome corporate veteran James Palmer into the senior partner post, joint chief executives Sonya Leydecker and Mark Rigotti are emerging from an internally focused post-integration bubble.
"Our partner conference in November in Madrid marked the end of the integration stage. Everyone across the world has now got what we're doing," says Leydecker.
"Our strategy was put together post-merger and since then we've been looking at implementation. We want to be a global elite law firm and it's about how to get there. The strategy covers four areas: clients; innovation and efficiency; people and culture – which internally we call becoming one firm; and geography and platform."
In the wake of the union that created the
This October will mark three years since the merger between UK firm
"Our partner conference in November in Madrid marked the end of the integration stage. Everyone across the world has now got what we're doing," says Leydecker.
"Our strategy was put together post-merger and since then we've been looking at implementation. We want to be a global elite law firm and it's about how to get there. The strategy covers four areas: clients; innovation and efficiency; people and culture – which internally we call becoming one firm; and geography and platform."
In the wake of the union that created the
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