Keith WetmoreWest Coast giant Morrison & Foerster (MoFo) has put European expansion on hold until economic conditions improve, the firm’s chairman Keith Wetmore has confirmed.

Speaking to Legal Week, Wetmore conceded that the San Francisco-based firm was to put European expansion on ice, despite having held preliminary merger talks with a number of firms in Germany and France – including leading independent Paris firm Moquet Borde & Associes earlier this year.