Eversheds Sutherland management laid out their priorities for the year ahead to about 700 partners at a firmwide partnership conference held in New York last month: High on the agenda was a plan for the firm to grow in the United States.

The firm, now almost 18 months old following last February’s union of U.K.-based Eversheds and the U.S. firm Sutherland Asbill & Brennan, has already built on the merger with a series of office openings and team hires. But further U.S. expansion through a domestic merger is still one option firmly on the table, co-CEO Mark Wasserman told The American Lawyer’s U.K. sibling publication Legal Week.