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Comment: The tiger that came to eat BLP’s culture for breakfast and other sorry tales

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Alex Novarese
info-sj@goodlawyerguide.co.uk
13 April 2016
CommentLegal mergers

These are tough times for another house that Stanley Berwin built, with exhibit B being the acrimonious end of merger talks between Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) and Greenberg Traurig. While the practice fit between the two looked both convincing and distinctive, these were two firms with plenty of strong characters.

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