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‘Buffeted from both sides’: City partners react as Clyde & Co and BLM finalise merger

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Tom Baker
4 April 2022
Legal mergers

With partners from Clyde & Co and BLM recently voting through their £700m merger, observers have offered conflicting views on what the tie-up means for the market.

Legal Business broke the news on 18 March that a partnership vote was imminent, and Clyde confirmed on 28 March that the vote had passed, with the combination to go live in July 2022.

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