“When it comes to international growth, we’re not after scale for the sake of scale, and we only want a merger if it helps with our strategy,” says Berwin Leighton Paisner’s relatively recently appointed managing partner, Lisa Mayhew, of the firm’s much-talked about discussions with Miami’s Greenberg Traurig.
As far as Mayhew is concerned, the UK firm would only be looking at any kind of union if it fitted with the wider strategic priorities settled on after she replaced long-term leader Neville Eisenberg last May and before the firm started discussions with Greenberg in October.
