By all accounts, Reed Smith is in the driver’s seat when it comes to merger discussions with Pepper Hamilton, but the former head of Pepper Hamilton’s lucrative health effects litigation practice is said to hold the keys to her colleagues’ future in a combined firm.
Sources said Pepper Hamilton partner Nina Gussack, the former chairwoman of the firm and past head of the health effects litigation group, has “unquestioned” power to sign off on whatever deal the two firms may strike.
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